NADAL PRIZE, 1986
FRANCE CULTURE PRIZE, 2003
UNIONE LATINA DI LETTERATURE ROMANZE PRIZE, 2004
Juan José Saer is the leading Argentinian writer of the postBorges generation considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the century XX. In 1968, he moved to Paris and taught literature at the university in Rennes, Brittany. Saer’s work often builds on particular and highly codified genres, such as detective fiction (The Investigation), colonial encounters (The Witness), travelogues (The river without a shore), or canonical modern writers. His work is translated into all major languages.
“Saer has constructed an extraordinary architecture based on a multitude of infinitely intercut plans […] one could say that saer has read all literature, listen to every kind of music, debated all the philosophers, and that the mixed waters of the rio de la Plata sweep along a joyful and inimitable discourse that flows between the shores of all cultures.”
Le Monde
“Many of us search in literature what Saer found in a perfect way. He challenges us in a way only done also by Borges: the dilemma of how to write after what they did”.
Martín Kohan
“To say that Juan José Saer is the best contemporary argentinean writer is to do an injustice to his achievement. More exact would be to say that Saer is one of the best contemporary writers in any language and that his work, like that of Thomas Bernhard or Samuel Becket, exists beyond all frontiers, in that no man’s land which is the unique region of literature.”
Ricardo Piglia
“A perfect writer from the very start.”
Beatriz Sarlo
«With meticulous prose, Saer’s novel captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety, as well as the “blind, incomprehensible, ceaseless drift” of time.»
Jascha Hoffman, about Glosa on The New York Times
«The most important Argentinean writer since Borges»
The Independent
«Juan José Saer must be added to the list of the best South American writers.»
Le Monde
«Saer’s literary project is based on a conviction that at least a few of us share: it is not a question of what to tell, but how to tell»
Enrique Zattara, Perro Negro Magazine
«Saer is a master of language, a magician who constructs sentences that fly over the reader, incite reflection and submerge him in a constellation of words and expressions.»
Eduardo Irujo, Papel en Blanco
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