Nadie vive tan cerca de nadie
Tamara Tenenbaum
STORIES | 2020 | 224 pages
Following the extraordinary success of El fin del amor, her essay published in 2019, Tamara Tenenbaum presents a collection of stories awarded the Ficciones Prize by the Ministry of Culture in 2018.
In these pages of crude, ironic, and disturbing realism, scenes of Jewish culture slip through against the backdrop of the Once neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Here, characters from a claustrophobic and perhaps autobiographical universe—one that has family and community at its center—are traced, somewhat blended together. Despite the fact that everyone seems to know each other, genuine contact, open emotion, and closeness without mediation prove to be elusive and insufficient. “I suppose that it’s something very timely,” Tenenbaum affirms, “the sensation of being very alone while surrounded by people, each person doing their own dance. Almost all of the stories are deformed versions of stories from people I know, anecdotes I’ve been told or things that have happened to me.”
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“There is a singular voice in the stories within Nadie vive tan cerca de nadie, and a way of ending them that proves to be very attractive. Unlike traditional stories that end with bells and whistles, the endings in this book seem to disintegrate: the end comes suddenly, almost like a whim, as though the person writing simply stopped. Each one has its ingrained secret, its own form of unrest. Voices confined in a small maze of desire: their world is all they see, and we observe them get lost in it, like insects licking glass.”
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