The Diaries Of Emilio RenziAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 28 December 2017
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"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 Piglias 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 Review
A giant of contemporary Latin American literature, Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglias 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 creators works, much like Philip Roths 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 Americas 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 Piglias place in the global canon.
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