The Witness

Details

ISBN-10: 1846686911
ISBN-13: 9781846686917
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Publish Date: 06/01/2009
Dimensions: 7.80" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H

The Witness

byJuan José Saer

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Price: $17.95

Overview

“The evocative imagery and ideas revealed in The Witness are not easily forgotten.”–Washington Times

“Haunting and beautifully written.”–Independent on Sunday

In sixteenth-century Spain, a cabin boy sets sail on a ship bound for the New World. An inland expedition ends in disaster when the group is attacked by Indians.

The Witness explores the relationship between existence and description, foreignness and cultural identity.

Juan José Saer was born in Argentina in 1937 and is considered one of Argentina’s leading writers of the post-Borges generation. He died in 2005.

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"The best-known of [Juan Jose] Saer's works in Argentina is The Witness, another faux-historical novel that enacts the 'speculative anthropology' he thought fiction should undertake. Formally innovative as ever, this tremendous novel sets lived time against book time, so that the longer the period covered, the shorter the account..."–The Nation

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Details

ISBN-10: 1846686911
ISBN-13: 9781846686917
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Publish Date: 06/01/2009
Dimensions: 7.80" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H
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