Ricardo Piglia

The Absent City

Artist searches for clues in vanished city haunted by political violence

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Ricardo Piglia
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.

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