This novel is even more chilling than "All or Nothing"
The movie "All or Nothing" makes the social issue of "fraud" once again on the cusp of public discussion, the temptation of high salaries, defrauding factories, human trafficking, gambling... These stories, based on many real cases, are not far away, and similar scams are happening all around us.
For example, when you see such a job posting -
【Job Posting】
Position: Sales Service Specialist
Job responsibilities: broaden sales channels and maintain existing customer relationships
Requirements: Female, under 18 years of age, subject to management
Treatment: Provide single-family apartments, three meals a day;
Basic salary + sales commission, there is no upper limit on more work
If you are interested, please go to the XX Ballroom for an interview
- you will think
A. It looks good, try your luck.
B. The probability is fraud, be careful to avoid it.
Friends who want to choose A, welcome to the world of "Tansong Girl"!
Ps. Please download the anti-fraud APP in advance.
The story begins. A woman paid a fortune for a pistol, spent three years, found Simon, an old lover who abandoned her three times, and shot him 48 times. Simon, who survived, identified the woman as the owner of Dansong Ballroom and suspected of involvement in a serial homicide.
The girls live in a space of less than ten square meters, usually inches from the bed. At eight o'clock in the evening, they left their rooms and went downstairs to be checked for well-groomed, dressed and neatly dressed. The restaurant manager zeroed out the cash register, plugged in the jukebox, pulled open the roller shutter, and the guest came to the door.
Just pay and do whatever you want.
Blanca is the most popular girl in the ballroom, and her bosses, companions and guests love her - she earns the most, recommends sisters who have a bad business to guests, and can show each other how she likes in front of different people. The regular customer "Playboy" said that she was talkative and could listen to her tell a fictional story every time; One mining engineer described her as quiet and focused, and the only time the two met was intense and memorable, during which she did not say a word; A lawyer was pulled by her tie to strip naked, pushed her onto the bed and pounced.
The family cheated on her, abandoned her, sold her, and made her prostitution from the age of fourteen, but she seemed carefree.
She has used numerous names – Pilar Cardona, Maria Elena Lara, María de Jesús Gomez, Norma Mendoza, and Blanca, who is still remembered today.
One midnight, she took her last breath and became the first corpse in the dance hall.
Blanca's death stemmed from a failed abortion.
The treatment plan reads: Burn the hot iron plate to the paralyzed side of the patient through a wet blanket until the blanket turns dark coffee.
- She didn't survive the operation.
Some employees of the ballroom
In the Dansong ballroom, there are mothers who attach importance to their son's education, fathers who send birthday wishes to their daughters every year, and "love brains" who are depressed by their boyfriend's splitting - they long for a happy marriage and family; They take care of sick employees, and they see the dance hall business as a career. They are not odious murderous demons.
As the author Jorge said: "There is no evil here, no bad people who murder premeditatedly." Only ignorance and corruption. ”
The soldering iron and even bullets imposed on the girls are, in the eyes of the perpetrators, a simple or last resort management tool. They are sincere and innocent, they are ignorant and cold-blooded, where "humanity" and "anti-humanity" meet.
They confessed to killing someone, but claimed no crime -
"If the police lock us up, we can only say that we have bad luck."
Curing diseases with cola, aborting with herbal medicines, operating on paralyzed patients with the "iron plate therapy" of quack doctors ... These absurd acts are not fictional stories, but social documentary records of real events.
"Dansong Girl" is based on a real case, and reality is more shocking than fiction.
In Guanajuato, Mexico, police exhumed 91 bodies, as well as multiple baby bones, from a dance hall run by the González sisters. Police speculate that the case involved at least 150 murders in total, and a criminal chain targeting underage women has emerged.
The Gonzalez sisters used job opportunities in big cities as bait to abduct women between the ages of 12 and 15 and force them into prostitution through rape, beatings and forced drug use. Women over the age of 25 who can no longer please customers are killed; If you become pregnant, you will be forced to have an abortion and even if the child is born, you will be killed. The case shocked the whole of Latin America and was the most murdered gang homicide in the world.
Sisters Gonzalez
Faced with the suffering of the victim, the ignorance of the perpetrator, and the indifference of the accomplice, Jorge, a reporter of the "Supreme Newspaper", was deeply distressed, and he rushed to the scene of the crime, intending to find out the truth behind the sensational bloodshed and cruelty. But if he just wrote a news report on it, it would be easy to fall into the trap of various media inciting public opinion and attracting people's attention, and he was determined to present this serial murder case in a "way that cannot be entertained".
Thirteen years later, after four drafts, Ivargengoitia wrote the novel "The Girl of Danzon", which reconstructs an abyss of sin under neon lights. In just 212 pages, the novel presents 37 testimonies of 26 witnesses in a "montage"-style film narrative, allowing 10 years of crime to break out completely in 8 days.
With its cold and bizarre humor, "Danzon Maiden" dissolves the bloody and cruel nature of sin, creates a new way of writing non-fiction, and explores aspects beyond magical realism in Latin American literature. Twenty-one years after the novel's publication, Mexico established the National Prize for Fiction, named after Jorge Ivargengoitia, in honor of the writer, who has been hailed as the "myth of Mexican literature".
Jorge Ivargengoitia
Nobel Prize winner in Literature Octavio Paz unreservedly praised the author,
Jorge Ivargengoitia is one of the best Latin American writers. He fights back against absurdity with absurdity, and unbearable crimes are obscured by humorous words. Ironically, so is reality, and the indefinability of sin makes it doubly terrifying.
The New York Times aptly commented on "The Dansong Girl":
Cleverly involving the reader in the fate of the characters, under the quiet tone of humor, we seem to tolerate the indifference of the murderer and the meanness of the atrocities, unconsciously following the characters into the trap of self-deception. Until after the laughter, there was a shudder.
Violence, women's plight, bureaucracy, class faultlines... "Danzon Girl" uses X-ray precision to recount a horrific and uneventful murder case. The same madness and absurdity are still playing out in all corners of the world, and the perpetrator, bystander, and victim of violence and evil are the same person – her, you, and me.
We may be closer to evil than we think.
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