Ricardo Piglia

Ricardo Piglia

Ricardo Juan José Saer & Piglia
Ricardo Piglia Androgué born in the province of Buenos Aires, in 1941. Narrator, essayist, critic and occasional writer, some of his books are among the most important of contemporary literature. He is the author of Artificial respiration novels (1980), The Absent City (1992) Burnt Money (1997) and White Night (2010), collections of stories Invasion (1967) Fake Name (1975) and Life imprisonment (1988 ) and books of criticism and fiction essay (1986), La Argentina in pieces (1993), Short Forms (1999) and the last reader (2005). With composer Gerardo Grandini composed the opera The absent city, based on his novel and released in 1995. Professor of universities of Princeton and Buenos Aires, his texts on Macedonio Fernández, Roberto Artl, Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig Rodolfo Walsh or are inescapable references for the study of these authors. His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Portuguese.
Juan José Saer Serodino born in the province of Santa Fe, in 1937. Narrator, essayist and poet, is one of the most important writers of the last half century. His narrative is an autonomous universe located in "The Zone" and inhabited by a cast of recurring characters; I make novels like Scars (1969), The Real lemon (1974), No nothing ever (1980), The entenado (1982), gloss (1985), The indelible (1992) and Large (2005) and collections of stories as unity of place (1967), Most (1976) and Place (2000). His essays are collected in The concept of Fiction (1997), The narrative-object (1999) and Work (2005); The poems in storytelling (1977/1988). Author of a "treaty imaginary," The river without banks (1991), professor of coastal and National Universities of Rennes, died in Paris, the city where he lived from 1968 to 2005. His work has been translated into French , English, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and Greek.