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Open Letter
27 June 2023
Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work.

His daily life is mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion.

However, through the puzzles, Demetrio inspects and sorts through his own memories.

At the end of the journey through his history, the present seems to devour him, until he's left with only the emptiness of himself and his daily misery.

A parable of memory and deterioration, Andres Neuman's Bariloche juxtaposes the astonished memories of youth with a skeptical conscience; the impossible idealization of nature or first love with the moral and physical suffocation of the big city; being uprooted with returning to one's origins, with a language fascinated by both lyricism and rottenness.
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Translated by:  
Imprint:   Open Letter
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm, 
ISBN:   9781948830621
ISBN 10:   1948830620
Series:   Argentine Literature Series
Pages:   140
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Andres Neuman (1977) was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was included on the Bogot-39 list. He is the author of numerous novels, short stories, poems, aphorisms, and travel books, including Traveler of the Century, Talking to Ourselves, The Thigs We Don't Do, and Fracture. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages. Robin Myers is a poet, essayist, and translator. Among her recent publications areCars on Fireby Mnica Ramn Ros (Open Letter, 2020),The Restless Deadby Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020), andThe Science of Departuresby Adalber Salas Hernndez (Kenning Editions, 2021). She lives in Mexico City, where she is working on a book of essays about translating poetry and a collection of poems.

Reviews for Bariloche

""The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers.""--Roberto Bola�o ""Andr�s Neuman has transcended the boundaries of geography, time, and language to become one of the most significant writers of the early twenty-first century.""--Music & Literature


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