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ISBN-10: 1948830620
ISBN-13: 9781948830621
Publisher: Open Letter
Publish Date: 03/21/2023
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 4.90" W, 0.50" H

Bariloche

Translator: Robin Myers

Paperback

Price: $16.95

Overview

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, Andrés Neuman’s Bariloche juxtaposes the astonished memories of youth with a skeptical conscience; the impossible idealization 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.

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"The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers."–Roberto Bolaño
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ISBN-10: 1948830620
ISBN-13: 9781948830621
Publisher: Open Letter
Publish Date: 03/21/2023
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 4.90" W, 0.50" H
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