The Animal Condition

SHORT STORIES. PÁGINAS DE ESPUMA, 2016. 168 PAGES.

One can't enter the world created by the twelve stories in The Animal Condition and not come out at the very least shaken, disturbed and maybe even upset by its intensity.
What is it that makes us different as a species, what is the human condition? To know that we are fragile, vulnerable, mortal? How would we act if we didn't fear external danger? It's a question asked in each of the stories that Valeria Correa Fiz has written in visceral, physical, disturbing prose, lifting the veil on our fears, insecurity, and phobias. The darkest side of humanity - madness and death, love and sickness, obsession and violence, unavoidable tenderness - comes out in this brutal book, a book that hurts, like all good literature.
Rarely does one come across a debut as stunning as this first collection by Valeria Correa Fiz, a solid, serious and gripping project overflowing with quality and potential.