Juan José Saer

"Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language."—Ricardo Piglia"What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess."—[i]BookforumIn modern-day Paris, Pichón Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscript—which might be fictional, or could be a memoir—by Doctor Real, a nineteenth-century physician tasked with leading a group of five...

"The most important Argentinian writer since Borges."— The Independent The One Before is a triptych of sorts, consisting of a series of short pieces—called «Arguments»—and two longer stories—"Half-Erased" and «The One Before»—all of which revolve around the ideas of exile and memory.Many of the characters who populate Juan José Saer's other novels appear here, including Tomatis, Ángel Leto, and Washington Noriega (who...

"The most important Argentinian writer since Borges."—The Independent[/i] Juan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine year old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have some connection to the crime: a young reporter, Ángel, who lives with his mother and works the courthouse beat; a dissolute attorney who clings to life only for his...

"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's The Sixty-Five Years of Washington captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety."—New York Times[/i] It's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician—wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white—is just back from a grand tour of Europe. He's on his way to drop off a...

"A cerebral explorer of the problems of narrative in the wake of Joyce and Woolf, of Borges, of Rulfo and Arlt, Saer is also a stunning poet of place."—The Nation[/i] Saer's final novel, La Grande, is the grand culmination of his life's work, bringing together themes and characters explored throughout his career, yet presenting them in a way that is beautifully unique, and a wonderful entry-point to his literary world. Moving between past and present, La Grande ...

Las nubes narra la historia de un joven psiquiatra que, en 1804, conduce a cinco locos hacia una clínica, viajando desde Santa Fe a Buenos Aires. Con él va una caravana de treinta y seis personas: locos, prostitutas, gauchos y una escolta de soldados, que atraviesan la pampa sorteando todo tipo de obstáculos. En esta falsa epopeya, que se desarrolla en el infinito escenario de la llanura ante la mirada científica del joven doctor, Juan José Saer concentra los núcleos básicos de su escritura: sus...