Argentine writer Piglia is the most perceptive contemporary reader of that nation's literature and perhaps its best practitioner. This diary of short essays is of ...
Ricardo Piglia, the Walter S. Carpenter Professor of Language, Literature and Civilization of Spain, Emeritus, at Princeton and professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures, emeritus, ...
Ricardo Piglia, trans. from the Spanish by Sergio Waisman. Deep Vellum (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-941920-16-9 Celebrated Argentine writer Piglia's unconventional ...
When Witold Gombrowicz, the Polish émigré and writer, decided to leave Buenos Aires and return to his home country, in 1963, a group of friends and literati went to see him off at the city’s port.
In 2013, the Argentine novelist Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the degenerative disease that eventually killed him. He retired from a teaching position ...
The American writer Edgar Allan Poe might have invented detective fiction, but it's been a long time since the United States has had a monopoly on the genre. In the past few decades, Americans have ...
Ricardo Piglia dominates Argentine writing. Born in 1941, he inherited Borges' suspicion of genre, his exploration of writing and reading - and his attraction to the seamy underbelly of Buenos Aires.