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Artificial Respiration, Hardcover by Piglia, Ricardo; Balderston, Daniel (TRN...
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- ISBN
- 9780822314264
- Book Title
- Artificial Respiration
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Acclaimed as one of the most important Latin American novels in recent decades, Artificial Respiration is a stunning introduction for English readers to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia. Published in Argentina in 1981, it was written at a time when thousands of Argentine citizens "disappeared" during the government's attempt to create an authoritarian state. In part a reflection on one of the most repressive and tragic times in Argentine history, this is one of those rare works of fiction in which multiple philosophical, political, and narrative dimensions are all powerfully and equally matched. As a prize winning detective novel, Artificial Respiration reaches through many levels of mystery to explore the forces that have been at play in Argentina throughout its violent history. The narrator, a writer named Renzi, begins to look for an uncle who has vanished, a man he knows only through a web of contradictory family stories and an exchange of letters. Through these letters he learns about his uncle's research into the life of Enrique Ossario, secretary to the 19th-century Argentine dictator Rosas and spy for the dictator's enemy. As Renzi's search leads further into his uncle's work and to conversations with his literary and chess-playing friends, the reader is led by Piglia to consider the nature of Argentine identity, its literature and history, and its relation, for example, to Europe, exile, and democracy. Finally, and made most vividly appreciable by the retelling of a story in which Kafka meets Hitler, it is the encounter between literature and history that is explored.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822314266
ISBN-13
9780822314264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
790648
Product Key Features
Book Title
Artificial Respiration
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
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"Sometime ago I wrote in the New York Times Book Review that it was a shame that Artificial Respiration by Ricardo Piglia, one of the most important Latin American novels of the last decade, was unavailable in English. Now it can finally be read, enjoyed, and celebrated by readers in this country. It will be an intellectual experience you will never forget"--Ariel Dorfman, "Sometime ago I wrote in the New York Times Book Review that it was a shame that Artificial Respiration by Ricardo Piglia, one of the most important Latin American novels of the last decade, was unavailable in English. Now it can finally be read, enjoyed, and celebrated by readers in this country. It will be an intellectual experience you will never forget"-Ariel Dorfman, ÒArtificial Respiration is intellectually explosive, artistically refreshing and aesthetically ambitious. . . . Not since Julio CortazarÕs Hopscotch has a book from south of the border offered such [a] shocking reassessment of Hispanic history and collective identity.Ó --Ilan Stavans, The Nation
Copyright Date
1994
Lccn
93-029571
Dewey Decimal
863
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Latin America in Translation Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
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