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The Silentiary

The Silentiary

Saer, Juan José
Di Benedetto, Antonio
Allen, Esther

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1681375621
ISBN13: 9781681375625
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Feb 1 2022
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama.

The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choos- ing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape.

The Silentiary, along with Zama and The Suicides, is one of the three thematically linked novels by Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication To the victims of expectation in Zama. Together they constitute, in Juan José Saer's words, one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish.

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