- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail (Sep 1 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1852422491
- ISBN-13: 978-1852422493
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.7 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 236 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,889,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Blanco the magician is famous throughout Europe for his telepathic powers. Undermined by a conspiracy and exposed to the world as a charlatan, Blanco is forced to flee to Argentina, where he takes up with the voluptuous Gina. This book received Spain's Nadal Prize for fiction in 1988.
About the Author
Born in Santa Fé, Argentina in 1937, Juan José Saer is the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. In 1968, he moved to Paris and taught literature at the university in Rennes, Brittany. In 1998, Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize. His work is translated into all major languages. He died in 2005.
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Oligarchic vs. immigrant Argentina in the 19th century, Aug 18 1996
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This review is from: The Event (Paperback)
THE EVENT is a first-rate ironic, even sarcastic treatment of the meeting of the two Argentinas in the second half of the 19th century, the "transparent" Argentina of the oligarchs and the "opaque" modern nation made up of European immigrants, such as the protagonist of Saer's novel. The book is a rare rendition of historical misunderstanding by one of the great Latin American narrators of our time, one who remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world
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