Book launch "A Dead Brother" by Isabel Baboun

"Almost like ghosts, just like in a theater, each protagonist belongs to the very simulacrum of the family. The settings of the nine stories of A Dead Brother make up the plot in which each character could be related to the other. An actress who pursues her director to kill him. A grandmother determined to rebel against life from a window. A man who mourns the death of a woman by clutching his ear. An obese girl who travels to Paris for her mother's funeral.

All the stories show violence against themselves from the permanent game with theater and representation. The last place in the world where they would want to take refuge is that impossible family, it is the staging of the horror of their own fears. They turn on, they turn off. It is the latent threat, perhaps waiting for some applause that does not come."

Text by Isabel Baboun

About the author

ISABEL BABOUN GARIB is an actress as well as a writer. At the age of twenty-three, she left Chile to study Creative Writing in New York (NYU). He lived there for three years and four in California, where he completed a Ph.D in Latin American Literature. In between, he delved into radio broadcasting and went to Cuba to take a film script workshop. In New York he published the poetry plaquette “A quarter a name” (New York, Pen Press 2011) and in Santiago the book of poems “All the trees” (Libros del Amanecer, 2015). In narrative, his story “Yalaá” appeared in the magazine Buensalvaje in Spain (2016) and “El Pablo” was a finalist in the "Paula" short story contest (Santiago, 2012). Her story “De Interior” was anthologized in the book “Abuelas Hispanas, desde la memoria y el memoria” under the Torremozas publishing house.