This book is an intervention to Antonio Di Benedetto’s novel Los
suicidas (The suicides).
The novel is a starting point to tell the suicides, in a two-year
period, of three of the greatest wrtiters of their time in Argentina:
Alfonsina Storni, Leopoldo Lugones and Horacio Quiroga.
The protagonist starts a thesis about suicides, and uses the case
of this three authors. But the University puts him to work with Marcela,
a peculiar young woman whom he doesn’t know. The investigation
about the edge of death begins to affect them both. What
is experienced in a way on paper, in literature, is not experienced
equally in the flesh.
A book that is, at the same time, a kind of mashup in which the
works of Di Benedetto, Onetti, Pizarnik and Arenas merge.