Bøker av Ricardo Piglia

Emilio Renzi, literary alter ego of legendary Argentine author Ricardo Piglia, returns in The Way Out, an academic thriller that relentlessly questions the lengths we go to hide our own truths and to uncover the secrets of others.

Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges¿ heir and the vanguard of the Post-Boom generation of Latin American literature.

Offering an introduction to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia, this title reaches through various levels of mystery to explore the forces that have been at play in Argentina throughout its violent history.

An English translation of 1992 best-selling fiction novel that explores the nature of totalitarian regimes and life in the aftermath of a long dictatorship.

¿Cognizant of his impending death, Piglia, the Argentine titan of letters who died of A.L.S. in January, prepared his 327 notebooks for publication in a trilogy¿. Splendidly crafted and interspliced with essays and stories, this beguiling work is to a diary as Piglia is to ¿Emilio Renzi¿: a lifelong alter ego, a highly self-conscious shadow volume that brings to bear all of Pigliäs prowess as it illuminates his process of critical reading and the inevitable tensions between art and life.¿ ¿Mara Faye Lethem, The New York Times Book ReviewA giant of contemporary Latin American literature, Argentine novelist Ricardo Pigliäs secret magnum opus was a compilation of 327 notebooks that he composed over nearly six decades, in which he imagined himself as his literary alter ego, Emilio Renzi. A world-weary detective, Renzi stars in many of his creator's works, much like Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman. But the Renzi of these diaries is something more complex¿a multilayered reconstruction of the self that is teased out over intricate, illuminating pages.As Piglia/Renzi develops as a reader and writer, falls in love, and tussles with his tyrannical father, we get eye-opening perspectives on Latin Americäs tumultuous twentieth century. Obsessed with literary giants¿from Borges and Cortázar (both of whom he knew), to Kafka and Camus¿The Diaries comprise a celebration of reading as a vital, existential activity.When Piglia learned he had a fatal illness in 2011, he raced to complete his mysterious masterwork as rumors about the book intensified among his many fans. First released in Spanish as a trilogy to tremendous applause, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi cements Pigliäs place in the global canon.