: The protagonist exists in a state of constant recollection, where her own identity becomes "weightless" (ingrávido). She is haunted by the literary ghost of Gilberto Owen, a real-life Mexican poet.
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. Entre Fantasmas
: In this framework, "fantasmas" represent the marginalized populations and the "disappeared." The city itself becomes a spectral archive where the writer must find the "witnesses" among the ruins of the Mexican landscape. Socio-Political Haunting in the Spanish Context : The protagonist exists in a state of
: 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. : In this framework, "fantasmas" represent the marginalized
Beyond specific titles, "entre fantasmas" often refers to the liminal nature of disappearance and historical memory in Argentina and Spain.