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People

People
Gente

Adriana Díaz Enciso
An asthma crisis prevented me from going out and measuring directly in the streets the level of national enthusiasm or indignation. I wasn’t around any of the innumerable street parties…
UK, September 2022. Second Part

UK, September 2022. Second Part

Adriana Díaz Enciso
Delirium I’m sitting at The Whittington Stone pub in north London, watching the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth II after the religious service at Westminster’s Abbey. The cortege has just…
Out with the Beast

Out with the Beast
Se va la bestia

Adriana Díaz Enciso
From the day before I went on holiday this summer, I didn’t want to watch the news. I had the firm resolve to disconnect from any source of stress and…
Nuclear

Nuclear

Adriana Díaz Enciso
Up to some eight thousand years ago, Great Britain was still joined to that which would become an expression of its strangeness once it became an island: the continent. I…
War

War
Guerra

Adriana Díaz Enciso
Nothing like the threat of an all-inclusive third world war (i.e., with nuclear weapons) to make a deadly and devastating pandemic seem almost insignificant. The human mind is odd. Its…
De consorcios editoriales y enterradores

De consorcios editoriales y enterradores

Adriana Díaz Enciso
Empecé a escribir mi novela Ciudad doliente de Dios (Alfaguara/UNAM, 2018) en 1997. Una escena apenas, ideas vagas que se concretaron en un primer borrador al año siguiente, durante una…
Adiós al verano

Adiós al verano

Adriana Díaz-Enciso
La llegada del otoño se anuncia con majestad. La luz es distinta. El aire. Es el rostro benigno de la melancolía. Esa luz, su centelleo, imperceptible a la vista pero…