by Martín Kohan · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020978644
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«Sciences morales» is the novel by Martín Kohan, published by Seuil in paperback (204 pages, in French).
At the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires in 1982, during the Argentine military dictatorship, María Teresa, a young monitor, receives an order from her superior Biasutto to watch without being seen; her obsession with catching a smoking student leads her to hide in the boys' toilets.
Winner of the Herralde Novel Prize 2007, the work was originally published in Spanish as «Ciencias morales» in 2007. The French translation is by Gabriel Iaculli; the edition belongs to the Cadre vert collection.
Readers interested in contemporary Argentine fiction and in repression as a backdrop to everyday life.
Martín Kohan is an Argentine academic, essayist and novelist. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires. He teaches literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Patagonia. He has published more than a dozen books in various genres - essays, short stories and novels. His best-known novel is Ciencias morales which won the Premio Herralde and was turned into a film called La mirada invisible by the director Diego Lerman. His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Hebrew. Two of his novels are available in English: School for Patriots and Seconds Out. Both were translated by Nick Caistor under the Serpent's Tail imprint.
