Quote by Griselda Gambaro: “Horror is not in what happens, but in how we accept it.”

This quote shifts the focus of horror from external events to internal complicity. It suggests that the true terror lies not just in suffering or injustice, but in our passive acceptance, or even normalization, of such atrocities. It challenges us to resist complacency.

Published during a politically volatile period in Argentina, preceding the brutal military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Gambaro's work often interrogated the psychological mechanisms of complicity and the normalization of violence, forcing audiences to confront their own roles in societal horror.

Argentine playwright and novelist whose Theater of the Grotesque challenged Argentine audiences to recognize their complicity in political violence during the country's military dictatorships. Her plays, including Information for Foreigners, were written during and about the period of state terror that disappeared thousands of Argentines.