With now classic texts such as Tango del viudo (Widower’s Tango) and Fuego para Rivarola (A Light for Rivarola), and characters who the reader can easily identify and empathize with -Tomatis, Pichón, Garay, Barco and Leto-, En la zona (In the Zone) by Juan José Saer is a fundamental book.

Written between 1957 and 1960, these stories define a space: the territory of language and organizes an aesthetic. The literature persistently describes a geographic environment -a city on the shore, the coasts and islands on the plains- making it and its variations the central theme of the book in an almost musical sense.

Re-read in the light of his later work, En la zona provides the foundations for a topography that stretches the relationship between fiction, writing and reality to breaking point. In this distinctively organized world encapsulated in each story, the stories and gestures of the protagonists -drinking, talking, walking and thinking- define a space of subjectivity, perception, memory and time.

En la zona offers the reader the chance to experience the purest state of an inimitable style: the originality of a young writer who would break new ground in Argentine literature.