When Amanda doubts whether any of this is happening, or really happened the way she remembers it – a seed Schweblin plants variants of throughout the book – he is quick to get her back on track: “It’s happening, Amanda. “We’re wasting time.” When she asks him, “Why do we have to go so quickly, David? Is there so little time left?” he replies, “Very little”. He is also a strict editor: “None of this is important,” he chides her at one point. David’s disembodied voice is chorus, prompt and guide, increasing the dreadful menace that builds as Amanda tells her story.
Fever Dream is cleverly structured as a dialogue between Amanda, who cannot see and is apparently lying in a hospital bed, and the eerily precocious David, who implacably urges Amanda on towards a confrontation with the unknown but apparently terrible event that has brought her here.
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