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Di Benedetto, Antonio, 1922-1986.
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Latin America -- Fiction.
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Di Benedetto, Antonio, 1922-1986.
Authors -- Fiction.
Latin America -- Fiction.
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The silentiary / Antonio di Benedetto ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen ; introduction by
Juan
José
Saer
.
by
Di Benedetto, Antonio, 1922-1986.
New York Review Books, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION DIB
Subjects
Authors -- Fiction.
Latin America -- Fiction.
Series
New York Review Books classics.
ISBN:
9781681375625 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Silenciero. English.
Description:
xii, 166 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published 1964.
Translated from the Spanish.
Summary:
"The Silentiary happens in a nameless Latin-American city during the years after World War II. A young man employed in mid-level management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary preconditions. It is the second of three novels by Antonio Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation in allusion to the dedication of the first one, Zama, 'To the victims of expectation.' Together they constitute, in
Juan
José
Saer
's words, 'one of the culminating moments of 20th-century narrative fiction in Spanish.'"--From publisher.
Genre:
Argentine fiction -- Translations into English.
Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Satire
Other authors:
Saer
,
Juan
José
,
1937-2005
.
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