The diaries of Emilio Renzi. The happy years

✍ Scribed by Ricardo Piglia

• Book ID: 100393515
• Publisher: Restless Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 304 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1632061996

✦ Synopsis

The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in thetumultuousyears 1968-1975—running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering the literary stars among whom he would soon take his place: Borges, Puig, Roa Bastos, Piñera.

“One writes,” Ricardo Piglia asserts, only “in order to know literature.” Spanning the years 1968 to 1975,The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Yearsis a testament to Piglia’s intimate, lifelong love affair with the written word. This second installment of the Argentinian master’s diaries opens a window into a luminous literary community fertile with genius and ever-traipsing from bar to bar—as well as into a convulsing Argentina racked by the death of Perón, guerilla warfare, and a bloody military coup—and establishes itself as the definitive backbone of Piglia’s monumental career.

✦ Subjects

Fiction