Product Description: En la historia contemporánea de Argentina existen momentos de enorme dificultad social. No obstante, se ha olvidado la visión del hombre que camina, respira y vive en un país cuya cotidianidad se ha cifrado -nos dicen los autores de los dos ensayos que integran el presente tomo- en la construcción de un discurso político, social y económico que lesiona los intereses y aspiraciones del cuidadano común...read more

Product Description: El propio autor dice que los textos de este volumen pueden ser leidos como paginas perdidas en el diario de un escritor y tambien como los primeros ensayos y tentativas de una autobiografia futura». En este libro miscelaneo, el mas reciente de este gran escritor argentino convertido en referente de las jovenes generaciones, conviven el indispensable Borges y los excentricos Roberto Arlt, Macedonio Fernandez y Witold Gombrowicz, reflexiones sobre el cuento, fragmentos de un diario, esbozos de ficciones& Literatura al fin y al cabo, y del mas alto calado...read more

Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with astute cultural and political insights into Argentina’s history and contemporary condition in this conceptually daring and entertaining work.The novel follows Junior, a reporter for a daily Buenos Aires newspaper, as he attempts to locate a secret machine that contains the mind and the memory of a woman named Elena. While Elena produces stories that reflect on actual events in Argentina, the police are seeking her destruction because of the revelations of atrocities that she—the machine—is disseminating through texts and taped recordings. The book thus portrays the race to recover the history and memory of a city and a country where history has largely been obliterated by political repression. Its narratives—all part of a detective story, all part of something more—multiply as they intersect with each other, like the streets and avenues of Buenos Aires itself.The second of Piglia’s novels to be translated by Duke University Press—the first was Artifical Respiration—this book continues the author’s quest to portray the abuses and atrocities that characterize dictatorships as well as the difficulties associated with making the transition to democracy. Translated and with an introduction by Sergio Waisman, it includes a new afterword by the author.

Product Description: El escritorilio Renzi, que ha escrito una narracion conjetural de una historia que circulaba en su familia, conoce por fin al protagonista, su tio Marcelo, que vive en provincias e investiga los papeles del secretario privado de un personaje que pudo ser un heroe pero del que se sospecha que en realidad fue un traidor...read more

'Complete translation of Nombre falso, for which Sergio Gabriel Waisman earned a Eugene M. Kayden Meritorious Achievement Award in 1995. Given the stature of Piglia's writing and its potential interest to English-language scholars and students of contemporary Argentine literature, one wishes for more extensive introductory and bibliographical material'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/