Name: The Invented Part
SKU: 48424931
Price: 19.33 EUR
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Author: Rodrigo Fresán
ISBN: 9781940953564

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rodrigo Fresán

Translated by

Will Vanderhyden

Publisher

Open Letter

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

552

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6x15.2x3.3 cm

Weight

0.75 kg.

ISBN13

9781940953564

Synopsis "The Invented Part "

"A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room."--Jonathan LethemAn aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an omnipresent deity--a meta-writer--capable of rewriting reality.With biting humor and a propulsive, contagious style, amid the accelerated particles of his characteristic obsessions--the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the music of Pink Floyd and The Kinks, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the links between great art and the lives of the artists who create it--Fresán takes us on a whirlwind tour of writers and muses, madness and genius, friendships, broken families, and alternate realities, exploring themes of childhood, loss, memory, aging, and death.Drawing inspiration from the scope of modern classics and the structural pyrotechnics of the postmodern masters, the Argentine once referred to as "a pop Borges" delivers a powerful defense of great literature, a celebration of reading and writing, of the invented parts--the stories we tell ourselves to give shape to our world.Rodrigo Fresán is the author of nine books of fiction that together compose an expansive, interconnected fictional universe--a complex system of storylines, resonances, and self-reference that call to mind the works of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, and Roberto Bolaño.Will Vanderhyden received fellowships from the NEA and Lannan Foundation to work on The Invented Part.

Rodrigo Fresán

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Rodrigo Fresán was born in Buenos Aires in 1963 and has lived in Barcelona since 1999. He is the author of the books Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, Mantra (Nuevo Talento Fnac Award 2002), Jardines de Kensington (Lateral Narrative Award 2004, finalist Premio Fundación José Manuel Lara), El fondo del cielo (Locus Magazine Favorite Speculative Fiction in Translation Novel 2018, USA) and the trilogy La Parte Contada, consisting of La parte inventada (Best Translated Book Award 2018, USA), La parte soñada, and La parte recordada

The jury of the Best Translated Book Award praised La parte inventada with the citation: "Fresán is a master". In 2017, Fresán received the Prix Roger Caillois in France for his entire body of work for being an "atypical, transgressive, and unavoidable writer"

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