Juan José Saer, trans. from the Spanish by Steve Dolph, Open Letter (Univ. of Nebraska, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (203p) ISBN 978-1-934824-20-7
Argentinian Saer (1937–2005) sets his novel during a walk through the streets of a seaside Argentinian city in the early '60s with a conversation comprising memories, images, and digressions in the mode of Proust and Laurence Sterne. Two characters...
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Juan Jose Saer, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator Serpent's Tail $20 (176p) ISBN 978-1-85242-184-7
A 15-year-old cabin boy, en route from Spain to the New World in the 16th century, is the sole survivor of a raid in a remote part of the world. He lives with his Indian captors for a decade and witnesses their annual cannibalistic festivals. The...
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Juan Jose Saer, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Serpent's Tail $14.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-85242-273-8
Never has a title better summed up a book. This tedious novel about a couple of monotonous days in the lives of some very colorless characters is the second book by the Argentine-born Saer to be translated into English. Elisa and Cat are lovers who...
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Juan José Saer, trans. from the Spanish by Steve Dolph. Univ. of Rochester/Open Letter, $14.95 trade paper (278p) ISBN 978-1-934824-22-1
In Saer’s witty and affecting novel, published in Spanish in 1969, four characters become linked around a grisly killing and the trial of the accused, Luis Fiore, each telling their portion of the story, in four temporally overlapping sections that...
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