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Bariloche
Series: Argentine Literature Series
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Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre, and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through the puzzles, Demetrio inspects and sorts through his own memories. At the end of the journey through his history, the present seems to devour him, until he's left with only the emptiness of himself and his daily misery.
A parable of memory and deterioration, Andres Neuman's Bariloche juxtaposes the astonished memories of youth with a skeptical conscience; the impossible idealisation of nature or first love with the moral and physical suffocation of the big city; being uprooted with returning to one's origins, with a language fascinated by both lyricism and rottenness.
Series: Argentine Literature Series
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Bariloche
Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre, and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through the puzzles, Demetrio inspects and sorts through his own memories. At the end of the journey through his history, the present seems to devour...Paperback$4700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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Bariloche by AndrΓ©s Neuman is praised for transcending boundaries of geography, time, and language, establishing Neuman as a significant writer of the early twenty-first century, according to Music & Literature.
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ISBN: 9781948830621
Publisher: Open Letter
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 March 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Open Letter
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Translated by Robin Myers
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 140
About the Author
Andres Neuman (1977) was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was included on the Bogot-39 list. He is the author of numerous novels, short stories, poems, aphorisms, and travel books, including Traveler of the Century, Talking to Ourselves, The Thigs We Don't Do, and Fracture. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages.
Robin Myers is a poet, essayist, and translator. Among her recent publications areCars on Fireby Mnica Ramn Ros (Open Letter, 2020),The Restless Deadby Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020), andThe Science of Departuresby Adalber Salas Hernndez (Kenning Editions, 2021). She lives in Mexico City, where she is working on a book of essays about translating poetry and a collection of poems.
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