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portada Zama (New York Review Books Classics)
Type
Physical Book
Translated by
Preface by
Publisher
Author
Year
2016
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.1 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
Weight
0.11
ISBN13
9781590177174
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Zama (New York Review Books Classics)

Esther Allen (Translated by, Preface by) · New York Review Of Books · Paperback

Zama (New York Review Books Classics) - Di Benedetto, Antonio ; Allen, Esther ; Allen, Esther

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Synopsis "Zama (New York Review Books Classics)"

An NYRB Classics Original First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously transformed and made good. Don Diego's slow, nightmarish slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one man's perdition but an exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness. Zama, with its stark dreamlike prose and spare imagery, is at once dense and unforeseen, terse and fateful, marked throughout by a haunting movement between sentences, paragraphs, and sections, so that every word seems to emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid. The philosophical depths of this great book spring directly from its dazzling prose.

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