![]() The Remainder is a story about three young people. I think about the tipping point between motion and action: the moment where everything balances on a slim edge, then snaps, tumbles, and changes. ![]() ![]() Inertia is movement without change, but often when I think about it, I think about the external actions that force change and disrupt inertia. When planning for Huellas’ second issue focused around the theme of ‘inertia,’ this book immediately came to mind. Having always been intrigued by the cordillera that outlines the Chilean border, and the literature that touches and transcends it, I was immediately captured by Alia Trabucco Zerán’s The Remainder, while looking for contemporary Chilean literature. Alia spoke about the way a body experiences time and inertia during a pandemic, and the books that have kept her company in quarantine, when the body is held still, inertial, while the mind roams free. In this interview I asked Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán about her craft, about violence inherited and inherent in a country and culture, and about translation. ![]() Para leer esta entrevista en español, haz clic aquí. ![]()
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