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Ricardo Piglia
An English translation of 1992 best-selling fiction novel that explores the nature of totalitarian regimes and life in the aftermath of a long dictatorship.
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Carlos Andres Restrepo Cardenas
The analysis of El camino de Ida seeks to show how the unveiling of a mystery can be considered a crime novel without having to comply with the canons of…
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The curator Croce was one of the protagonists of one of the great novels of Ricardo Piglia, Nocturnal Target. The author rescues the character in these cases, a succession of…
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The Invasion, the first book from the Argentinean writer Ricardo Piglia, was published in 1967. Here Piglia adds five more stories from the same era to the original ten, and…
Written almost simultaneously, the two short novels that make up this work use all of the possible variants of narration: autobiography, detective store, historical tale, theoretical fiction, diary, sentimental story…
A riveting thriller where a retired police officer takes on the role of detective. In a small town located in the Argentinean Pampas, a tragic and poignant family story has…
Teresa Orecchia Havas
La seduccion de la escritura ficcional y la agudeza de sus propuestas teoricas hacen que la obra del escritor argentino Ricardo Piglia sea hoy insoslayable dentro del marco de la…
The novella that gives its name to this collection is a unique and fascinating work. The author himself is the protagonist attempting to solve the mystery of an unpublished manuscript…
Offering an introduction to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia, this title reaches through various levels of mystery to explore the forces that have been at play in Argentina throughout its…
The highly anticipated, autobiographical life’s work from the visionary Argentine novelist who brought Latin American letters out from Borges’s shadow and into the postmodern era bookended by Roberto Bolaño and…
A masterful psychological and political crime novel by Argentina’s greatest living writer expands the genre of paranoid fiction.
Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diary of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical…
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…
The second instalment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off.
Macedo Rodriguez Alfonso
Este volumen es resultado de los estudios de doctorado de Alfonso Macedo sobre la obra literaria del escritor argentino Ricardo Piglia. Aqui, Macedo identifica los procedimientos de la literatura fantastica…
Cardozo Cristian
?Que relacion existe entre el lenguaje y el mundo representado o referido? Este es uno, sino el mas importante, de los interrogantes que atraviesa el presente ensayo y que se…
Features English translation of 1992 best-selling fiction novel that explores the nature of totalitarian regimes and life in the aftermath of a long dictatorship.
Andrea Perdigon Torres
Cette recherche pose la question de la vitalite de l'idee de roman moderne a partir d'une etude des poetiques de trois auteurs hispano-americains contemporains: Juan Jose Saer, Ricardo Piglia et…
Jose Manuel Gonzalez Alvarez
Este estudio analiza las estrategias ensayisticas y ficcionales de Ricardo Piglia, uno de los escritores vivos en lengua espanola mas aplaudidos por la critica actual. Enfoca por vez primera el…
Rodolfo Walsh
Originally published by Sigla, 1957; Editorial J. Alvarez, 1969; Casa de las Americas, 1970; Ediciones de la Flor, 1972, 2009 under the title Operacion masacre –Title page verso.
