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Not to Read

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Not to Read

By Alejandro Zambra

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About the book

Over the course of the chronicles and literary essays that make up this volume, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading. Whether it is in the course of a carefully considered commentary on a specific book, or in the digressions born out of a piece on this or that author - from Parra, Levrero and Pavese to Millan, Ribeyro, Tanizaki or Bolano, Natalia Ginzburg and Puig - the simple act of reading dominates these pages, within which the author alternates between forceful and ...Show more

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ISBN

9781910695630

Publisher

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Not to Read

Format

Paperback

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