Schweblin little eyes6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Implanted in the kentuki is a camera that sees through the animal’s eyes. Part Furby, part hacked webcam, a kentuki is a small artificial animal – a crow, rabbit, a panda – on wheels. By contrast, the imaginary technology at the heart of Little Eyes feels all too real, and Schweblin persuasively elaborates its operations and implications. The events of these earlier works hover between the surreal and the supernatural, with neither the reader nor their characters ever fully knowing what is happening or why. ![]() A woman discovers that a malevolent spirit has taken over the body of her young son. Hundreds of grooms abandon their brides by a road in the middle of the night, each man disappearing alone into the darkness. A teenage girl starts eating live songbirds, crunching their bones and letting the blood drip down her chin. In Fever Dream and Mouthful of Birds, the first two of her works to have been translated into English, strange transformations, vanishings and violence take place in spare and unspecified settings. Samanta Schweblin, the Argentinian author of four story collections and the novel Fever Dream, is a master of the unsettling. ![]()
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