Empty Words - Couverture souple

Levrero, Mario

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566895464 ISBN 13 : 9781566895460

Editeur : Coffee House Press, 2019

Synopsis

From a legendary cult figure in Latin American literature, the story of a writer who obsessively observes his own handwriting in search of answers about his identity.

An eccentric novelist begins to keep a notebook of handwriting exercises, hoping that if he's able to improve his penmanship, his personal character will also improve. What begins as a mere physical exercise becomes involuntarily colored by humorous reflections and tender anecdotes about living, writing, and the sense--or nonsense--of existence.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940 and died there in 2004. Levrero was a photographer, bookseller, comics script writer, humorist, crossword author, creator of brain games. In his later years, he directed a literary workshop. Empty Words is his first novel translated and published in English.

Annie McDermott's translations from Spanish and Portuguese have appeared in Granta, The White Review, Asymptote, Two Lines and World Literature Today, among others. Her translation of The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero is forthcoming from Coffee House Press and And Other Stories, and her co-translation of Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz (with Carolina Orloff) is forthcoming from Charco Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Coffee House Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566895464
• ISBN 13: 9781566895460
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible