Genres
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NOVEL, 1969
A journalist, egocentric, melancholic and unappreciated by others, a regular at movie theaters and boxing matches, is commissioned to write a series of chronicles on the suicides that have...
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NOVEL, 1964
First published in 1964, The Silentiary continues the narrative soliloquy begun with Zama in 1956 and prolonged in The Suicides , published in 1966, forming a sort of trilogy due to the...
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NOVEL, 1955
First published in Buenos Aires in 1955 and written in the previous decade, The Pentagon has attracted the attention of critics for years, not so much for questioning certain guidelines of...
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NOVEL, 1956.
First published in 1956, Zama is unanimously considered one of the great novels of the twentieth century in the Spanish language. It narrates, using a timeless and archaic language, at times...
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CHILDREN, 2011
«Helena humbles me every morning, at breakfast time, by telling me her prodigious dreams. She enters the night like a movie theater, and every night a new dream awaits her. While she tells,...
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NOVEL, 2024
Buenos Aires. 1881. One cold winter night, the corpse of Mrs. Inés Indart de Dorrego disappears from the Recoleta cemetery. Three Italians, two Frenchmen, a Greek and an Algerian, led by a...
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NOVEL, 2024
Volcanic ash has covered Bosque Blanco, a tourist town in Patagonia, for the past year. Flights to the area have been cancelled; hotels and restaurants are empty, and a large part of the...
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Essay, 2019
It is possible to summarize the meaning of Alberto Manguel's essay with the author's own words: «The reality of Cervantes' world [...] can only be faithfully portrayed through approximations...
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The Backside of Tapestry: Notes on the Art of Translation
ESSAY, 2023
«Every translation is a transposition. In the Middle Ages, the word translatio denoted the movement of a saint's relics from one place to another: translation therefore as displacement, as...
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Story of the parrot's resurrection
CHILDREN, 2008
«The man regained his speech, and told how the parrot had drowned and the girl had cried and the orange had been stripped and the fire had gone out and the wall had lost a stone and the tree...
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