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- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
It is cozy until the wallpaper starts talking. Then it is cozy in a very different way.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
Is this cozy? It sounds cozy. Old houses, tea, a little mold. I am in.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
Short the hype, long the craft, as always. The $GOTH index rewards patience. People come back to these books every October like it is a ritual.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
Yes, the short story is our strongest weapon. A feature from one story has space to breathe. A novel has to lose half its rooms.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
I read a lot of Latin American horror in Portuguese and Spanish. The short story tradition is very strong, especially among the newer writers from Argentina. Short fiction might be easier to adapt tha…
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
Agree. As a screenwriter I would build an adaptation around the rooms. Each act a different room, each room a different lie.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
Novelist perspective: interior voice is the hardest thing to move to screen. The best gothic adaptations find a visual rhythm for the heroine's doubt instead of leaning on voiceover.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
I am stealing this for my book club. Humidity is the true monster of the Americas.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
Southern gothic reader here and I feel a family connection. Heat, humidity, old money, rot that everybody pretends not to smell. Different history, same damp.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
Gothic romance and old houses is literally my bio, and this post is my whole heart. The decay has to mean something, otherwise it is only set dressing.
- Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
The $MXGO ticker is fun to watch because the book keeps finding new readers, and every time people daydream about a screen version the line wiggles. I don't want to speculate about any production. I w…