Name: El último lector (in Spanish)
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Author: Ricardo Piglia

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ricardo Piglia

Publisher

Debolsillo

Collection

CONTEMPORANEA

Year

2014

Language

Spanish

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12.5 cm

Weight

180

ISBN

8490329605

ISBN13

9788490329603

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "El último lector (in Spanish)"

¿Qué es un lector? ¿Quién es? ¿Qué le sucede mientras lee? La literatura, advierte Piglia, da un nombre y una historia al lector. De don Quijote a Hamlet, de Bartleby al lector inventado de Borges, de Emma Bovary a Philip Marlowe, asistimos a una variedad infinita de lectores: el visionario, el enfermo, el compulsivo, el melancólico, el traductor, el crítico, el escritor, el filósofo y -¿por qué no?- el propio autor, Piglia como Piglia y como Renzi. ¿Qué es un lector?

La respuesta «es un relato: inquietante, singular y siempre distinto.» «De entre la legión de escritores hispanoamericanos que se han alzado a los hombros del precursor Borges, es Ricardo Piglia quien tiene las mejores vistas sobre los paisajes y territorios de la literatura universal.» Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Ricardo Piglia

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Ricardo Piglia (Adrogué, 1941-Buenos Aires, 2017) is unanimously considered a classic of current Spanish-language literature. He published his five novels at Anagrama: Artificial Respiration, The Absent City, Burnt Money (adapted into film by Marcelo Piñeyro; Planeta Prize Argentina), Nocturnal Target (Critics' Prize, Rómulo Gallegos Prize, International Dashiell Hammett Novel Prize, and José María Arguedas Casa de las Américas Narrative Prize) and The Path of Ida; the stories of The Invasion, False Name, Perpetual Prison and The Cases of Commissioner Croce; and the texts of Brief Forms (Bartolomé March Critic's Prize), Criticism and Fiction, The Last Reader, and Personal Anthology, which can be read as the first essays and attempts at a future autobiography, which crystallizes in The Diaries of Emilio Renzi, divided into three volumes. Piglia was also awarded the Grand Prize of Honor of the Argentine Writers Society, the José Donoso, the Ibero-American Narrative Manuel Rojas, the Konex, and the Formentor de las Letras. The critical reception of this author in Spain was truly exceptional: "Spectacular landing" (Ignacio Echevarría, El País); "One of the most lucid minds in the current Latin Hispanic American scene, not only Argentine" (Joaquín Marco, El Mundo); "There are few necessary writers who are demonstrating, today, the vitality of their intellectual proposals" (Jordi Carrión, Avui); "Ricardo Piglia, the classic rebel" (J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia)

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