Ricardo Piglia
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Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and the vanguard of the Post-Boom generation of Latin American literature.
How could we define a perfect day? Maybe it would be better to say: how could I narrate a perfect day?
Is that why I write a diary? To capture-or reread-one...
2) The Way Out
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Emilio Renzi, literary alter ego of legendary Argentine author Ricardo Piglia, returns in The Way Out, an academic thriller that relentlessly questions the lengths we go to hide our own truths and to uncover the secrets of others.
In the mid 1990s Emilio Renzi leaves behind his unstable life in Argentina to take a visiting position at a prestigious university in New Jersey. Settling in for a semester of academic quietude and wintry isolation, he is...
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Cuando, en 2016, el archivo de Ricardo Piglia fue enviado a la Universidad de Princeton, se encontraron allí las cintas que contenían la grabación del seminario sobre las novelas cortas de Juan Carlos Onetti que dictó en la Universidad de Buenos Aires en 1995. Piglia solicitó su transcripción y dedicó los últimos meses de su vida a la revisión de este material inédito, que se reúne por primera vez en Teoría de la prosa.
El programa de...
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Diaries of Emilio Renzi volume 1
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The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia's acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975-running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering the literary stars among whom he would soon take his place: Borges, Puig, Roa Bastos, Piñera.
"One writes," Ricardo Piglia asserts, only "in order to know literature." Spanning...
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A passionate political and psychological thriller set in a remote Argentinean Pampas town, Target in the Night is an intense and tragic family history reminiscent of King Lear, in which the madness of the detective is integral to solving crimes. Target in the Night, a masterpiece, won every major literary prize in the Spanish language in 2011.
Ricardo Piglia (b. 1941), widely considered the greatest living Argentine novelist, has taught for decades...
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Diaries of Emilio Renzi volume 3
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A giant of contemporary Latin American literature, Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia's secret magnum opus was a compilation of 327 notebooks that he composed over nearly six decades, in which he imagined himself as his literary alter ego, Emilio Renzi. A world-weary detective, Renzi stars in many of his creator's works, much like Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman. But the Renzi of these diaries is something more complex-a multilayered reconstruction...
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Escenas de la novela argentina reúne las cuatro clases que Ricardo Piglia dictó en el programa homónimo de la TV Pública en el año 2012. Él mismo revisó las transcripciones de las clases y compuso, mediante un ejercicio de archivo y reescritura, los cuatro ensayos que se suman al final de cada clase.
Desde Alberdi, Sarmiento, Cambaceres y Mansilla, pasando por Macedonio, Arlt, Marechal y Borges, hasta Puig, Walsh y Aira, entre otros, Piglia...