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Books by Ricardo Piglia
  | | The Absent City(10th Edition) by Ricardo Piglia, Sergio Waisman, Sergio Gabriel Waisman Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2586-4, ISBN: 0-8223-2586-1 "Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, "The Absent City" takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with astute cultural and political ..." |
 | | The Diaries of Emilio Renzi The Happy Years by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2018 by Restless Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-198-0, ISBN: 1-63206-198-8 "The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975—running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering the literary stars among whom he would soon take his place: Borges, Puig, Roa Bastos, Piñera.“One writes,” Ricardo Piglia asserts, only “in order to know literature.” ..." |
 | | The Diaries of Emilio Renzi Formative Years by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll, Ilan Stavans, Robert Croll Stavans Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2017 by Restless Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-162-1, ISBN: 1-63206-162-7 "“In 1957, Argentinian writer Ricardo Piglia started to write what would become 327 notebooks filled with the thoughts of his alter ego, Emilio Renzi. Piglia’s final literary act before his death in January 2017 was to organize and publish these works as Renzi’s diaries.... Renzi meets and corresponds with literary luminaries like Borges, Cortázar, and Márquez, and offers insightful readings of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Faulkner, and Joyce. Ila ..." |
 | | Artificial Respiration(1st Edition) (Latin America in Translation) by Ricardo Piglia, Daniel Balderston Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1414-1, ISBN: 0-8223-1414-2 "Acclaimed as one of the most important Latin American novels in recent decades, Artificial Respiration is a stunning introduction for English readers to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia. Published in Argentina in 1981, it was written at a time when thousands of Argentine citizens "disappeared" during the government’s attempt to create an authoritarian state. In part a reflection on one of the most repressive and tragic times in Argentine h ..." |
 | | Operation Massacre(Illustrated) by Rodolfo J. Walsh, Ricardo Piglia, Daniella Gitlin, Michael Greenberg Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2013 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-513-5, ISBN: 1-60980-513-5 ""A mesmerizing, prophetic tour de force of investigative journalism exposing the pervasive thuggishness of the Argentine military elite. A chilling, lucid work, beautifully translated by Gitlin, which serves as a great example of journalistic integrity."—Kirkus Starred Review“...brave, committed, dangerous journalism with more than a hint of polemic. It is also frighteningly human.”—Times of London1956. Argentina has just lost its chari ..." |
 | | Money to Burn(1st Edition) by Ricardo Piglia, Amanda Hopkinson Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2003 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86207-592-4, ISBN: 1-86207-592-1 "Love and betrayal complicate a robbery gone wrong in this edgy true-crime novel based on a 1965 Argentine bank robbery. There's the drama of the botched raid itself, followed by a blowout afterparty, an attempted double-crossing of the corrupt local authorities, and a final shootout where, as a last act of rebellion, the robbers burn all the loot. This gritty tale has been adapted for a major motion picture by renowned Argentine directo ..." |
 | | The Diaries of Emilio Renzi A Day in the Life by Ricardo Piglia 368 Pages, Published 2020 by Restless Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-048-8, ISBN: 1-63206-048-5 "Now I return to Mansilla, who was at one point a possible thesis subject for me, such that I even went as far as talking about him with my teacher Enrique Barba. In any event, next week I will once again seclude myself in the house in Adrogué ..." |
 | | The Diaries of Emilio Renzi The Happy Years by Ricardo Piglia 512 Pages, Published 2018 by Restless Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-199-7, ISBN: 1-63206-199-6 "An old man was interrogating a hard-faced woman and asking her, rhetorically, for explanations; he went back and forth about some shared past, but she kept her lips sealed. I saw the poet Alberto Szpunberg; upset, with nothing to say to ..." |
 | | The Diaries of Emilio Renzi by Ricardo Piglia Published 2017 by Restless Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-163-8, ISBN: 1-63206-163-5 "In the novels, Renzi is a detective; in the notebooks that comprise The Diaries of Emilio Renzi, he is something more complex—a multilayered reconstruction of the self that is teased out over these intricate, illuminating pages." |
 | | The Diaries of Emilio Renzi Formative Years by Ricardo Piglia 411 Pages, Published 2017 by Restless Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-126-3, ISBN: 1-63206-126-0 "There was no artwork on the walls, although on the floor of the corridor, leaning against the wall, there was a painting by their friend Freddy Martínez Howard, a group portrait, composed in the style of a 16th-century Dutch Painting, in which Emilio, Beba Eguía, León Rozitchner and his partner Claudia could be identified, and off to one side of the canvas Gerardo Gandini was visible, pale, wearing a half-smile, holding a red rose ..." |
 | | The Absent City-CL by Ricardo Piglia, Sergio Waisman, Sergio Gabriel Waisman Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2557-4, ISBN: 0-8223-2557-8 "Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, "The Absent City" takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with astute clinical and political ..." |
 | | Assumed Name(1st Edition) (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) by Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Arlt, Sergio Waisman, Sergio Gabriel Waisman Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1995 by Latin American Literary Review Press ISBN-13: 978-0-935480-71-9, ISBN: 0-935480-71-4 "stories, Argentina, tr Sergio Gabriel Waisman" |
 | | Artificial Respiration(1st Edition) (Latin America in Translation) by Ricardo Piglia, Daniel Balderston Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1994 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1426-4, ISBN: 0-8223-1426-6 "Acclaimed as one of the most important Latin American novels in recent decades, Artificial Respiration is a stunning introduction for English readers to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia. Published in Argentina in 1981, it was written at a time when thousands of Argentine citizens "disappeared" during the government’s attempt to create an authoritarian state. In part a reflection on one of the most repressive and tragic times in Argentine h ..." |
 | | La forma inicial (Spanish Edition) by Ricardo Piglia Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Sudaquia Group, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-944407-26-1, ISBN: 1-944407-26-X |
 | | Target in the Night by Ricardo Piglia 250 Pages, Published 2015 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-941920-17-6, ISBN: 1-941920-17-9 "Ricardo Piglia. until the owner of the money showed up for it. Or until someone showed up to claim it. He was right, but he wasn't allowed to carry out his plan because they wanted to smother the affair and shut down the case. Maybe Yoshio had left the bag filled with the money in the storage room of the hotel, Cueto argued, because he planned to go back and get it once everything calmed down. If the murderer had taken the money fo ..." |
 | | Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia, Amanda Hopkinson Paperback, 209 Pages, Published 2004 by Granta Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-86207-665-5, ISBN: 1-86207-665-0 "Love and betrayal complicate a robbery gone wrong in this edgy true-crime novel based on a 1965 Argentine bank robbery. There's the drama of the botched raid itself, followed by a blowout afterparty, an attempted double-crossing of the corrupt local authorities, and a final shootout where, as a last act of rebellion, the robbers burn all the loot. This gritty tale has been adapted for a major motion picture by renowned Argentine directo ..." |
 | | Ciudad Ausente (Spanish Edition) by Ricardo Piglia, Pablo De Santis, Luis Scafati Hardcover, Published 2000 by Tandem Library ISBN-13: 978-0-613-86720-7, ISBN: 0-613-86720-3 "NULL" |
 | | The Absent City by Ricardo Piglia Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-8140-2, ISBN: 0-8223-8140-0 "Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with astute cultural and political i ..." |
 | | The Way Out by Piglia, Ricardo, Croll, Robert Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Restless Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-220-8, ISBN: 1-63206-220-8 |
 | | Target in the Night by Ricardo Piglia, Sergio Gabriel Waisman Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-941920-16-9, ISBN: 1-941920-16-0 "One of the BBC's Ten Books to Read (December 2015) "Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American writer to have appeared since the heyday of Gabriel Garcia Marquez." -- Kirkus Reviews "Piglia opens a window into a fascinating world, leaving the reader hungry for more." -- Publishers Weekly A passionate political and psychological thriller set in a remote Argentinean Pampas town, Target in the Night is an intense and tragic family histo ..." |
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