When Ricardo Piglia died in January 2017, many felt that a period in Argentine literature was ending. From the 60s onward, Piglia had moved through the burning center of the literary scene’s tensions and conflicts. He formed part of very influential magazines such as Punto de vista, taught clandestine courses during the military dictatorship, directed editorial collections, had a professorship at the prestigious Princeton University for over a decade, won important prizes (some with scandal attached, like the Planeta one in 1997), taught literature on broadcast television, wrote over fifteen books, and definitively impacted the assessment and analysis of other authors’ work due to his luminous intelligence as a reader.

In this book, Mauro Libertella reconstructs the author of Respiración artificial’s journey, from the adolescent who moved from Adrogué to Mar de Plata and began writing a diary that would accompany him the rest of his life to the man who, afflicted by a degenerative disease, finished shaping his work with a paralyzed body. Written with contained and precise prose, moving without abandoning elegance, Ricardo Piglia a la intemperie combines a portrait with an essay in order to understand how an artist is constructed and what combination of experiences and readings end up creating a contemporary classic.

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BY MAURO LIBERTELLA:

Ricardo Piglia a la intemperie
NONFICTION, 2024
Un futuro anterior
FICTION, 2022
Un hombre entre paréntesis
NON FICTION, 2019
Un reino demasiado breve
NOVEL, 2017
El invierno con mi generación
NOVEL, 2015
El estilo de otros
NON FICTION, 2015
Mi libro enterrado
NOVEL, 2013