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So what happened to the husband in "Spiderweb"? Did the trucker do something to him, or the cousin, or both? Was the trucker somehow otherworldly because his truck moved in a cloud of dust, even though there was no dust anywhere else?

Jeanne I felt like that story was sort of a metaphor for the Argentinian desaparacidos -- a period of time when the government and the police simply disappea…moreI felt like that story was sort of a metaphor for the Argentinian desaparacidos -- a period of time when the government and the police simply disappeared people and their relatives never found out what happened to them. The stories themselves did not have a linear logic. I mean what happened to the girl who was eaten by the haunted house? She became a desaparacida. Similarly, the husband and the mother in law were simply disappeared. There is no logic to it. That place, the hotel, was a place where things like that could happen. I don't think it makes sense to try to figure out what really happened.
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Jeanne To make it clearer -- I think she is referencing a time in Argentinian history when people disappeared and there were no answers why. So there is no a ...more
Jul 04, 2020 02:32PM · flag

Birgitt Krumboeck I think you have to see this collection of short stories as haunted stories. The author is coming to terms with Argentina's horrific past. The transla ...more
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