: By placing the narrator "among ghosts," Luiselli suggests that memory is not a linear history but a spatial experience where the past and present occupy the same room. The characters are not haunted by spirits, but by the echoes of their own lives and the literary figures they obsess over. Landscapes of the Disappeared: Anadeli Bencomo
In the context of Valeria Luiselli's novel Los ingrávidos (Faces in the Crowd), the idea of living "entre fantasmas" serves as a central poetic of memory . Luiselli uses the "ghost" not as a supernatural element, but as a structural device to link different timelines and geographies—specifically contemporary New York and the Mexico City of the past. Entre Fantasmas
In her critical work Entre héroes, fantasmas y apocalípticos (Between Heroes, Ghosts, and Apocalyptics), Anadeli Bencomo examines how the Mexican chronicle uses these archetypes to describe a landscape of social and political crisis. : By placing the narrator "among ghosts," Luiselli
: Recent essays like Tierra de mujeres connect modern Spanish women with their "first-wave" ancestors as ghosts. Here, being "among ghosts" is a radical act of reclaiming a suppressed feminist lineage. Conclusion Luiselli uses the "ghost" not as a supernatural
: The ghostly representation of the desaparecidos serves as a way for survivors to process trauma. These "ghosts" lurk in obsessive thoughts and dreams, evidencing the lack of closure in a state where a body is never found.
Beyond specific titles, "entre fantasmas" often refers to the liminal nature of disappearance and historical memory in Argentina and Spain.