Ricardo Piglia, Author Editorial Anagrama $19 (144p) ISBN 978-84-339-2463-6
Argentine writer Piglia is the most perceptive contemporary reader of that nation's literature and perhaps its best practitioner. This diary of short essays is of particular interest, as it doubles as the author's first rough attempt at an...
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Ricardo Piglia, trans. from the Spanish by Sergio Waisman. Deep Vellum (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-941920-16-9
Celebrated Argentine writer Piglia's unconventional whodunit explores the curious characters and insular world of a small town in the province of Buenos Aires. Elegant outsider Tony Duran, a Puerto Rican–American, causes a sensation when he arrives...
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Ricardo Piglia, trans. from the Spanish by Robert Croll. Restless, $22 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-63206-050-1
In this posthumous autobiographical masterpiece by Argentinian writer Piglia (1941–2017), the final work in a trilogy after The Happy Years, Emilio Renzi transcribes his journals while enduring the debilitating effects of ALS and reflects on a post-P
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Ricardo Piglia, Author, Aricardo Piglia, Author, Yvette E. Miller, Editor Latin American Literary Review Press $17 (160p) ISBN 978-0-935480-71-9
Argentinian writer and critic Piglia (Artificial Respiration) borrows shamelessly from Borges and other postmodern writers in this eponymous novella and five accompanying short stories-now translated 20 years after their first appearance in Spanish.
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Ricardo Piglia, Author, Amanda Hopkinson, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Amanda Hopkinson. Granta $14.95 (209p) ISBN 978-1-86207-592-4
Piglia, one of Argentina's best-known contemporary writers (Absent City
; Artificial Respiration
), again delivers his signature blend of noirish crime and social commentary in this provocative tale of a 1965 Buenos Aires bank robbery and its...
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Ricardo Piglia, Author, Ricardo Piglia, Author, Piglia, Author Duke University Press $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8223-2586-4
This futuristic and fragmented detective novel blurs the lines between fact and fiction as it meanders through the life and mind of Junior, a reporter at a daily newspaper in Buenos Aires. Aided by Fuyita, a Korean gangster, and a scarred but...
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Ricardo Piglia, trans. from the Spanish by Robert Croll. Restless, $19.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-63206-162-1
This volume is the momentous first installment of the Argentine novelist’s 327 diaries, written as the autobiography of his alter-ego, Emilio Renzi. The source material chronicles Piglia’s attempts, as he was coming of age in the ’60s, to answer the
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