by Ricardo Piglia · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433924711
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«Respiración artificial» is the novel by Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Young writer Emilio Renzi investigates a family story and meets his uncle Marcelo Maggi, who deciphers the papers of Enrique Ossorio, secretary to Juan Manuel de Rosas. Structured as a detective novel, the work interweaves letters, conversations and exiles to explore Argentine history and the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Originally published in 1980; part of the Narrativas hispánicas collection, number 300.
For readers of literary fiction and Argentine narrative; a survey among Argentine writers placed it among the ten best novels of the twentieth century.
Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.
