Name: Scars
Price: 299.00 ZAR
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Author: Juan José Saer
ISBN: 9781934824221

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan José Saer

Translated by

Steve Dolph

Publisher

Open Letter

Topic

literary

Language

English

Pages

278

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4 x 14.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781934824221

Synopsis "Scars"

"The most important Argentinian writer since Borges."--The IndependentJuan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine year old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have some connection to the crime: a young reporter, Ángel, who lives with his mother and works the courthouse beat; a dissolute attorney who clings to life only for his nightly baccarat game; a misanthropic and dwindling judge who's creating a superfluous translation of The Picture Dorian Gray; and, finally, Luis Fiore himself, who, on May Day, went duck hunting with his wife, daughter, and a bottle of gin.Each of the stories in Scars explores a fragment in time--be it a day or several months--when the lives of these characters are altered, more or less, by a singular event. Originally published in 1969, Scars marked a watershed moment in Argentinian literature and has since become a modern classic of Latin American literature.Juan José Saer was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections (including Scars and La Grande), Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for The Event.Steve Dolph is the founder of Calque, a journal of literature in translation. His translation of Juan José Saer's Scars was a finalist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award.

Juan José Saer

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Juan José Saer (Santa Fe, 1937 - Paris, 2005) is one of the essential writers of Argentine literature and a key reference for new generations of readers. His work, considered on par with Borges, Beckett, and Bernhard, includes novels, short stories, essays, and poetry.
Set in the Litoral region of Santa Fe, his novels and stories create a literary universe where characters and their stories intertwine and reappear in different texts.
Based in France since 1968, he was a professor at the University of Rennes. Among the recognitions he received are the Nadal Prize (1987) for La ocasión, the France Culture (2003), and the Unione Latina di Letterature Romanze (2004). His legacy remains alive, and his work, translated into more than twenty languages, has been established as essential reading both within and outside the Spanish-speaking world.

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