Tag Archives: Argentine

Outrageously Out of Print: Ten Books You Didn’t Even Know Existed in Translation

Posted on October 14, 2018 by

The heading is unapolagetically clickbaity as I sincerely hope that you do know about the existence of at least some of the titles listed below. The idea for the post cristallised after several occasions when I was planning to write … Continue reading →

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Bludgeoning Dwarfs to Death (Matando enanos a garrotazos) by Alberto Laiseca

Posted on August 4, 2017 by

The debut short-story collection by the recently departed Argentine maverick Alberto Laiseca contains the seeds of all the major themes that will be brought later to exuberant fruition in his mega-novel The Sorias. The thirteen stories first published together in … Continue reading →

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The Sorias (Los sorias) by Alberto Laiseca

Posted on May 27, 2015 by

Alberto Laiseca is the buried giant of world literature. Without his wild imagination, which surpasses even the most baroque and audacious exploits of the Latin American Boom, the literary jigsaw of the 20th century would be deplorably incomplete. The fact that … Continue reading →

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Adam Buenosayres: The Translation which Nobody Noticed

Posted on July 28, 2014 by

Today I opened my heavily annotated edition of Leopoldo Marechal’s great modernist epic Adán Buenosayres with a view to finally reading it and possibly writing a review later on just to find out later that this novel had recently been translated into English … Continue reading →

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