![]() ![]() With In the Dream House, Machado’s arc as an author so far becomes evident: bodies, the built environment and an ingenious darkness surround her narration and exploits traditional fiction to evoke the real. ![]() ![]() The result is a terrifying aura that resembles Dario Argento’s body horror in Suspiria, where it seems that the very thing you desire most is out to get you. In her memoir, body and house get interwoven in a power dynamic that displaces her from her own self-control. The eerie atmosphere that characterizes said collection seeps into this memoir, effectively positioning Machado as a master of the gothic. Machado twists genres in order to tell a brimful yet coherent tale that sheds light on the reality of violent relationships.Ĭarmen Maria Machado was shortlisted for the US National Book Award in 2017 for her anthology of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties. The book is an exploration of the author’s own abusive relationship with another woman, one that starts on an idyllic note and becomes a deep fog that invades every space of the eponymous house. Epigraphs have the possibility of foretelling the path a text will take in Machado’s Dream House, memory and architecture serve as foundations for the scenario she is trying to rebuild. Memory itself is a form of architecture.”Ĭuban American author Carmen Maria Machado starts her third book, In the Dream House: A Memoir, with this quote from renowned artist Louise Bourgeois. “You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. ![]()
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