Name: Empty Words
Price: 478.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Mario Levrero
ISBN: 9781911508502

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mario Levrero

Publisher

And Other Stories

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

152

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781911508502

Empty Words

Mario Levrero (Author) · And Other Stories · Paperback

New Book Imported to Taiwan

Delivery: 18 Aug - 25 Aug

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Synopsis "Empty Words "

An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to keep a notebook of handwriting exercises, hoping that if he is able to improve his penmanship, his personal character will also improve. What begins as a mere physical exercise becomes involuntarily coloured by humorous reflections and tender anecdotes about living, writing, and the sense - and nonsense - of existence. The first book by Mario Levrero to be translated into English, Empty Words is the perfect introduction to a major author and a significant point of reference in Latin American writing today.

Mario Levrero

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Mario Levrero was born in Montevideo in 1940 and died in the same city in 2004. He was a photographer, bookseller, comic scriptwriter and experimental serials writer, humorist, and editor-in-chief of a magazine with an unclassifiable profile. He is the author of the novels La ciudad (1970), Nick Carter se divierte mientras el lector es asesinado y yo agonizo (1975), París (1980), El lugar (1984), La Banda del Ciempiés (1989), Dejen todo en mis manos (1996), El alma de Gardel (1996), El discurso vacío (1996) and La novela luminosa (2005); he also published the storybooks La máquina de pensar en Gladys (1970), Todo el tiempo (1982), Aguas salobres (1983), Los muertos (1986), El portero y el otro (1992), Ya que estamos (2001) and Los carros de fuego (2003); moreover, some of his best journalistic articles are found in Irrupciones I (2000) and Irrupciones II (2001)

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