Publication series :e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication year: 2000
E-ISBN: 9780822381402
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822325864
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780822325574
Subject: I1 World Literature
Keyword: Waisman, Sergio Gabriel.
Language: ENG
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Description
The novel follows Junior, a reporter for a daily Buenos Aires newspaper, as he attempts to locate a secret machine that contains the mind and the memory of a woman named Elena. While Elena produces stories that reflect on actual events in Argentina, the police are seeking her destruction because of the revelations of atrocities that she—the machine—is disseminating through texts and taped recordings. The book thus portrays the race to recover the history and memory of a city and a country where history has largely been obliterated by political repression. Its narratives—all part of a detective story, all part of something more—multiply as they intersect with each other, like the streets and avenues of Buenos Aires itself.
The second of Piglia’s novels to be translated by Duke University Press—the first was Artifical Respiration—this book continues the author&rsquo