The Absent City

Ricardo Piglia

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The Absent City

Ricardo Piglia
Translated by: Sergio Waisman

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2000

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English translation of 1992 best-selling fiction novel that explores the nature of totalitarian regimes and life in the aftermath of a long dictatorship.

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Ricardo Piglia lives in Argentina and is the author of nine Spanish-language books, two of which have been previously translated into English: Artificial Respiration, also published by Duke University Press, and Assumed Name. The Absent City has been performed as an opera in Argentina and Piglia’s books have been translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, and German. His fiction has won the Casa de las Américas Prize, the Boriz Vian Prize, and the Premio Planeta.

Sergio Waisman is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at San Diego State University. His previous translations include Piglia’s Nombre falso (Assumed Name), which received the Meritorious Achievement Award in the 1995 Eugene M. Kayden National Translation Contest. In addition, Waisman was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Translation Fellowship to support his translation of The Absent City.

Reviews

“A truly striking and innovative novel written by one of Latin America’s most highly regarded novelists. Piglia brings into play a swirl of tales mixing dark truths with hallucinatory adventures.”— Gwen Kirkpatrick, author of The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo

“Piglia is Argentina’s most important novelist, a compelling writer and committed intellectual who relentlessly deals with the complicated relationships between politics and fiction. And Sergio Waisman is an exceptionally gifted translator with a wonderful ear and eye for the reverberations of Spanish in English. The Absent City is a book for our times, one that transcends national boundaries.”—Francine Masiello, author of Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina

“Though clearly walking in the riverbank footsteps of the whimsical Macedonio and the noir geniuses Arlt and Onetti, Piglia is a genuine original, gifted with a fluid imagination that rushes past traditional narrative boundaries. The Absent City is a kind of mock thriller that lures its reader on, not with the question, ‘What happens next?’ but with ‘What was it that just happened?’ ”—Robert Coover

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. The Meeting
The Recording Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
II. The Museum
The Invisible Gaucho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
A Woman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
First Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	44
The Girl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	46
The White Nodes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
III. Mechanical Birds
The Island Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
IV. On Shore
Afterword Ricardo Piglia and Sergio Waisman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141

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November 15, 2000

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9780822381402

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160

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381402

eBook ISBN: 9780822381402

The Absent City

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