Argentine Authors/Writers

Let's discuss Spanish-language writers representing Argentina.
Foremost, this man. What are your thoughts on his non-fiction?

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What's commonly available is a motley collection of criticism that are more useful as appendages to less abstruse work. Much of the brilliance that informs his stories tends to be absent in his nonfiction. He knew that in writing for periodicals he had to lower the quality of his composition. Unfortunately he did not revise or otherwise improve on them. Humor and satire is expanded on where it is not needed, especially for that Homer essay where he recommends all the translations commonly read in his time, which is an essentially true suggestion, but due to his cheeky manner in relating it, failed to attractively lay the path of reasoning why this is so. Thus it can be inferred he did not find that having universal appeal would be necessary in his nonfiction, being merely a way to support himself to further his studies, stories, and above all, his poetry, as he has related in biographical material.

Overall his nonfiction was quite competent, and he remains a model as a critic, but his essays tended to lack the clarity that would have cemented them as permanent fixtures to complement his stories.

Casares and Ocampo were disappointing to finally read. I had higher expectations, but I won't put Argentina out of the count in the near future.

Yes, aside from Morel most everything I've read from them suggests that they're that kind of unexceptional writer that gives little thought and gets forgotten as soon as they pass away, only periodically remembered by their association with Borges and people's taste for more obscure cultural artifacts.

Creo que nunca leí ninguno de sus ensayos. Escucharlo en entrevistas está de más.

Tendría que leer más de Argentina. Leí a Sábato, Borges y Martín Fierro. ¿Con que sigo?

>inb4 Bioy

Probably Cortazar?

Yo te recomendaría a Ricardo Piglia. Tiene mucha variedad pero pienso que su mejor obra es La ciudad ausente. Vale mucho la pena.

...si te referías a obra contextual para aproximarse a Argentina también está Macedonio Fernández. Piglia es más contemporáneo.

Alberto Laiseca

Rayuela changed the way I see literature. Bear in mind, I was 17 at the time I read it.

But I've just read it a second time and I still feel it's groundbreaking. A masterpiece in my opinion. There's just so many layers of depth to it. It's mind-boggling.

And it's still a blast to read. It's great fun and it'll open your mind as a reader (and as a writer).