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Life Signs: Ricardo Piglia’s Cyborgs

2006
Ricardo Piglia’s La ciudad ausente (1992) [The Absent City] has received a considerable amount of critical attention in the ten years following its publication, including chapters or sections in three of Duke University Press’s most recent books on Latin American culture and narrative.1 This attention has confirmed Piglia’s prominent position in Latin ...
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Attuned Listening in Ricardo Piglia’s Plata quemada

Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2009
This article argues that Ricardo Piglia’s novel Plata quemada should be read not simply as a postmodern experiment in polyvocal narration but as a collage of sounds of all kinds, of which voices are but one, and which should be experienced “musically.” An attuned listening is proposed as a way to approach the text.
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Ricardo Piglia

Ricardo Piglia is one of the most influential Latin American writers of the second half of the 20th century. The literary strategies he developed in his work are recognizable and admired for their originality and great impact on the cultural field in the Spanish language: first, because of the shifting and re-evaluation of marginal authors and the use ...
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Time and Trauma in Ricardo Piglia's The Absent City

The Comparatist, 2013
In Ricardo Piglia's novel La ciudad ausente (The Absent City), Macedonio Fernandez attempts to save some semblance of his terminally ill wife, Elena, by placing her memories in a machine. The machine eventually begins to tell others' stories, stories that challenge the state's official history.
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Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City

Latin American Perspectives, 2009
The Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City reflects upon the retrieval of the past as a prerequisite for healing from national trauma. If postdictatorship countries are to implement a transition to democracy, their citizens must confront the past. The denial of national trauma perpetuates tyranny.
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Artificial Respiration

The Argentina Reader, 2020
Ricardo Piglia
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Ricardo Piglia: Towards a Re‐socialized Literature

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2004
The question of the potential of fiction to engage with its historical moment is the theme par excellence of the post‐dictatorship era in Argentina, which is defined by a radical scepticism towards...
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Afterword

The Absent City, 2020
Ricardo Piglia, Sergio Waisman
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A ficção especulativa de Ricardo Piglia

RESUMO O objetivo deste artigo é analisar e refletir acerca do processo criativo do romance Respiração artificial (1980), primeiro romance do escritor argentino Ricardo Piglia (1940-2017). Após publicação dos três volumes de Os diários de Emilio Renzi, ocorrida entre 2015 e 2017, ficou ainda mais evidente o projeto borgeano de Piglia que pensa a ...
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In the Shadow of Mao: Ricardo Piglia's 'Homenaje a Roberto Arlt'

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2003
(2003). In the Shadow of Mao: Ricardo Piglia's 'Homenaje a Roberto Arlt' Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 229-259.
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