A Buenos Aires Epidemic Retold as Gothic Fantasy
The Argentine writer Diego Muzzio has his first story collection translated into French, setting the 1871 yellow fever outbreak in Buenos Aires against a backdrop of fantastic and gothic horror.
Ce qui tournoie dans la nuit, the first collection of short stories by Argentine author Diego Muzzio to appear in French translation, has been reviewed by En attendant Nadeau. The book is set during the 1871 yellow fever epidemic that struck Buenos Aires, a historical catastrophe the stories approach obliquely, through the registers of the fantastic, the gothic and horror.
According to En attendant Nadeau, the collection stands out for the originality of its atmospheres, weaving the three genres together around the epidemic as a kind of fever dream of the city. The review does not specify a publisher, translator or page count.
The source material gives no further detail on Muzzio's other work or on the circumstances of this translation reaching French readers for the first time.
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