Ricardo Piglia
Argentine novelist, critic, and intellectual whose fiction blurs the line between crime, politics, and literary history. Artificial Respiration is a clandestine dialogue with Argentina's dirty war, and The Absent City is a noir meditation on memory and language.
Works
- Artificial RespirationTwo men debate history, identity, and truth across Argentine generations
- The Absent CityArtist searches for clues in vanished city haunted by political violence
- Assumed NameCriminal assumes false identity and infiltrates Buenos Aires literary world
- Money to BurnCounterfeiter and con artists navigate Buenos Aires underworld