by Mario Levrero · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401541018
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«La Ciudad» is the novel by Mario Levrero, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
A man has just moved into an inhospitable house and, on the first night, goes out to look for food; he gets lost in the darkness and rain, in an adventure between dream and nightmare. He traverses a city governed by incomprehensible but precise laws, where reality becomes strange. The work dialogues with Franz Kafka, a decisive reference for Levrero.
It is the first installment of Mario Levrero's Involuntary Trilogy. The work was originally published in Montevideo in 1970.
For readers of dreamlike narrative and Uruguayan literature, with affinities with the Kafkaesque universe.
Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero, better known as Mario Levrero, was a Uruguayan author. He authored nearly 20 novels as well as writing articles, columns, comic books and crosswords. His work is said to be influenced by Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll and surrealism. Throughout his life he shunned publicity and was difficult with interviewers. Regardless, he became a cult figure in Uruguay and Argentina.
