The transmigration of bodies by yuri herrera review post apocalyptic noir he tries to broker a non lethal exchange of bodies the transmigration of bodies is nine parts noir to one . In the transmigration of bodies we follow a couple of days in the life of the redeemer caught in the middle of two feuding families who each possess a body belonging to the other his job is to make the trade. The transmigration of bodies these days we walk right past a body on the street and we have to stop pretending we cant see it from the transmigration of bodies a plague has brought death to the city. The following is from yuri herreras the transmigration of bodies translated from the spanish by lisa dillmanborn in actopan mexico in 1970 yuri herrera studied politics in mexico creative writing in el paso and took his phd in literature at berkeley. The transmigration of bodies represents a highpoint in the genre of the novel herrera has been slowly building an oeuvre constructed on a singular conception of the world in which literatures past and present form a continuum