Genres > Non-fiction > Literary

  • The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

    NON FICTION, 1980

    Alberto Manguel

    In Ancient Times it seemed as though a whole universe stretched beyond the Pillars of Hercules, in which everything was possible, but today, when the last stretch of “terra incognita”...

  • Criticism and Fiction

    NON FICTION, 1986

    Criticism and Fiction is a lucid, passionate reflection on literature, theory and aesthetics that brings us closer to the dynamic thought of Ricardo Piglia. Through a series of interviews,...

  • Dear Family (Volum one: European letters. Volume two: American letters)

    LETTERS, 2006

    Manuel Puig

    In 1956, at twenty-three, Manuel Puig leaves the port city of Buenos Aires for a scholarship at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. During the six years of this intense European...

  • Spain in the Diaries of My Old Age

    NON FICTION, 2004

    Ernesto Sabato

    A trip to Spain in early 2002, while Argentina was in the throes of one of the worst political and economic crises in its history, was the spur for Ernesto Sabato’s new book.True to his...

  • Resistance

    NON FICTION, 2000

    Ernesto Sabato

    An essay in the form of 5 long letters addressed to the reader in which Ernesto Sabato reflects on the lack of values of today's society and denounces the inhumanity of technology, encouraging the...

  • One and the Universe

    NON FICTION, 1945

    Ernesto Sabato

    One and the Universe, the first book published by Ernesto Sabato, won first prize in the poetry competition run by the Municipality of Buenos Aires in 1945. The jury included Vicente Barbieri,...

  • Works

    ESSAY, 2006

    Juan José Saer

    Written by one of the greatest Argentine writers, the attraction of these articles on literature is twofold: they provide passionate readers with valuable information while also dazzling with the...

  • Objective Narration

    ESSAY, 1999

    Juan José Saer

    Saer writing down his readings. If, as Saer said, criticism is a superior form of reading, then at its best it can provide masterful literary texts such as the ones that make up La...

  • The Concept of Fiction

    ESSAY, 1997

    Juan José Saer

    El concepto de ficción (The Concept of Fiction) is a compilation of all of Juan José Saer's essays up to 1997, non-fiction work by a writer who was undoubtedly one of the most...

  • The River Without a Shore

    ESSAY, 1991

    Juan José Saer

    In El río sin orillas (The River Without a Shore), history and culture, the past and present come together in Saer's tight, vigorous writing, which organizes events into a specific order...

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