Los que vienen de la noche / The Ones Who Come from the Night
Novel , 2018
Seix Barral
Pages: 184
The beauty of the night includes its underworld. Written in the form of improvisation, 'The Ones Who Come from the Night' is a collection of scenes that, in their simultaneity, shape a single night. In the moment someone celebrates, another suffers. In the moment someone loves, another kills. This could be one of the equations posed here.
Between narrative and poem, each of these snapshots becomes a journey through the dark. In their course, instead of definitions, there are questions. Neither sociological endeavor nor attempt at anthropological research, it is, in any case, a fictional and poetic experiment of the nocturnal. Following Bataille, a clear awareness that "intimacy will be found only in the night."
Fernanda García Lao and Guillermo Saccomanno, the authors of 'Inverted Love', that insolent and unique erotic novella, return with another work written between two. This time, an imaginary cartography of darkness. 'The Ones Who Come from the Night' is an introspection that, with poetic density and lunatic humor, disturbs, seduces, or reveals what we do not want to see, what we are when the lights go out.