The Nation, June 27th, 1994
By Ricardo Piglia. Translated by Daniel Balderston. Duke University Press. 229 pp. Paper $12.95.
Detective thrillers--"beach reading" to many North Americans--have been serious staples of Latin American literature for better than a half-century. And more than anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere, Argentina is known as the crib of first-rate armchair private eyes who, stylistically and verbally Europeanized, have devoted themselves to deciphering labyrinthine adventures in contexts that are psychologically ambiguous and politically corrupt. As the author of classic tales like "Death and ...
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