{"id":94107,"date":"2025-07-08T14:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/events-archive\/samanta-schweblin-el-buen-mal\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:38:28","slug":"samanta-schweblin-el-buen-mal","status":"publish","type":"events-archive","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/samanta-schweblin-el-buen-mal\/","title":{"rendered":"SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN: El buen mal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uncanny, haunting, and intimate, Schweblin\u2019s short stories read like modern fairy tales. \u00bbIn Samanta Schweblin\u2019s hands a single story becomes a theory of just about everything.\u00ab [Colum McCann] In \u00bbGood and Evil and Other Stories\u00ab [trans. Megan McDowell] she weaves together tales of family, grief, and regret with phantasmagoric imagery \u2013 revealing just how fragile and unsettling everyday life can be. 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