Other words. Play and create with dictionaries

Eduardo Berti

ESSAY, ADRIANA HIDALGO EDITORA. 2024, 448 PAGES

«Instead of yearning for control or mastery over words, anti-dictionaries establish a dialogue and install uncertainty. Unlike official dictionaries, they operate disguised as rigor and imitate or apply the form and 'façade' with a logic that does not pretend to be scientific, but often pretends to be so through open criticism or irony. This does not mean completely destroying the original object or model, but rather adding to it (or sometimes even subtracting from it) something. To expand it, to move it, to transform it from mobility and not from rigidity.»
Eduardo Berti proposes here a journey as fascinating as it is hilarious that takes us from Flaubert to Bierce or from Bioy Casares to Gómez de la Serna, with numerous stops in lesser-known but equally ingenious works. A book that surprises with every page.

Review La Nación

Interview Tiempo Argentino

Berti shows an overwhelming erudition that is not at the service of academic rigidity, but of playfulness and amusement. It is very unlikely, not to say impossible, that there is another book like this one, a true cabinet of language curiosities (...) Advice for the reader: if you get your hands on a copy of Otras palabras, do not lend it out because you will not get it back»

Mónica López, Tiempo Argentino

 

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