The last reader, by: Ricardo Peglia

Ricardo Piglia: who is considered one of the most important writers of Latin America, is also the most famous for working in the field of cultural and creative criticism and the relationship between literature and reception. "Among all Latin American writers who rose on the shoulders of Borges the pioneer, the best who enjoyed visions of global literature atmospheres and lands." German Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine What is the reader? Who is he? What happens to him when he reads? Literature, according to Piglia, gives a name and a story to the reader. From Don Quixote to Hamlet, from Bartleby to Borges' invented reader, from Emma Bovary to Philip Marlowe, we encounter an infinite variety of readers: the narrator, the sick, the obsessive, the melancholic, the translator, the critic, the writer, the philosopher, and why not?: the author himself, Piglia as Piglia or Piglia as Renzio (the character he hides behind in his literature). What is the reader? The answer is "a story: troubling, unique, and always different." Number of pages: 197