Top 5: Books to love with Ricardo Piglia – Milenio.com

Ricardo Piglia, bequeathed a work vast and generous, full of riddles that only can be resolved with the passage of the lines. The argentinean writer, died at age 75 in Buenos Aires, but, as once said Jorge F. Hernandez, when a writer dies, is born, your new potential reader. These are five books to enter the universe of Piglia.

The original edition of this book (1980) was published during the military dictatorship in argentina. This is his first novel. In it, Emmilio Renzi —who then appear in other texts of the argentinian writer— makes his first appearance.

A fiction that makes a game of mirrors with the history, a novel that uses the structure of the police to investigate into shady characters, and times incendiary.

In a survey of over 50 argentine writers, artificial Respiration was chosen as one of the ten best books written in the history of the letters argentine.

first Published in 1967, this is the book debut of Piglia. Its first version —winner of prize House of the Americas— including ten stories, the argentine writer added the other five that had been published in magazines of the time.

The book reveals us obsessions with themes and his deep knowledge of the architectural narrative.

A text that the argentine described as "the most personal and the most intimate of all his books". An exploration of the great readers of fiction, whose condition of the lovers of the literature revealed only in the secondary scene and, perhaps, irrelevant to the main plot. However, are these moments almost unnoticed, in which Piglia show your expertise to the literary creation.

In this novel, Piglia re-exploring the detective genre with a sense biographical. Emilio Renzi is invited to a university in New Jersey to teach a seminar on the writer and naturalist W. H. Hudson.

in charge of managing the visit is the director of the department, Ida Brown, who dies in an accident unexplained. The key detail is a mark of a burn on the hand of Ida, which is part of a pattern that seems to link a series of attacks against the staff of the university.

• The diaries of Emilio Renzi

the Book summit Piglia, this text reveals, finally, the origin of this alter ego who starred in their texts: What is the origin of Emilio Renzi? Piglia look at your own past to rescue the papers that he wrote for half a century, between 1957 and 2015.

Published in three volumes, this work recounts the life: the love affairs, the university studies, the enthusiasm, the rebellions, and the disappointments of Renzi and, of course, Piglia.

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