Artificial Respiration (Latin America in Translation) - Image 1

£17.80

Duke University Press Artificial Respiration (Latin America in Translation)

Name: Artificial Respiration (Latin America in Translation)
Brand: Duke University Press
Price: 17.8 GBP
Availability: InStock

Contemporary Fiction

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£18 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 17 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 343 days • 343 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 343 days • 5 price ranges

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common range: £19-20 (145 days, 42.3%)

Price range: £18 - £24

Price levels: 5 price ranges over 343 days

Description

Acclaimed as one of the most important Latin American novels in recent decades, Artificial Respiration is a stunning introduction for English readers to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia. Published in Argentina in 1981, it was written at a time when thousands of Argentine citizens "disappeared" during the government’s attempt to create an authoritarian state. In part a reflection on one of the most repressive and tragic times in Argentine history, this is one of those rare works of fiction in which multiple philosophical, political, and narrative dimensions are all powerfully and equally matched. As a prize winning detective novel, Artificial Respiration reaches through many levels of mystery to explore the forces that have been at play in Argentina throughout its violent history. The narrator, a writer named Renzi, begins to look for an uncle who has vanished, a man he knows only through a web of contradictory family stories and an exchange of letters. Through these letters he learns about his uncle’s research into the life of Enrique Ossario, secretary to the 19th-century Argentine dictator Rosas and spy for the dictator’s enemy. As Renzi’s search leads further into his uncle’s work and to conversations with his literary and chess-playing friends, the reader is led by Piglia to consider the nature of Argentine identity, its literature and history, and its relation, for example, to Europe, exile, and democracy. Finally, and made most vividly appreciable by the retelling of a story in which Kafka meets Hitler, it is the encounter between literature and history that is explored.

Product Specifications

Brand: Duke University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0822314266
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary Fiction
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 March 1994
Listed Since: 17 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Duke University Press Artificial Respiration (Latin America in Translation)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Autobiographies of Others - Literary Fiction Study

Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire

The Allies and the Italian Social Republic (1943-1945): Anglo-American Relations with, Perceptions of, and Judgments on the RSI during the Italian ... / European University Studie)

The Poet and the Dictator: Lauro de Bosis Resists Fascism in Italy and America (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Routledge - A Cultural History of the Modern Age, Vol 3

A Cultural History of the Modern Age: The Crisis of the European Soul: 3

From World War to Waldheim: Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States: 2 (Austrian and Habsburg Studies, 2)

Repeated Attempts of a Life

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel: 2

Pedigree et autres romans - leatherbound

My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová

The Silence In Between - Historical Novel About Berlin Wall

Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism

Fred Zinnemann: Interviews (CONVERSATIONS WITH FILMMAKERS)

From Caesar to the Mafia: Persons, Places and Problems in Italian Life

Gerhard Richter - Photographs

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America (Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction)

Gucci Prospettive 1 (Bilingual edition): Milano Ancora

México Noir: Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Writing and Visual Culture

Histoire de l'OAS

Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2005

Cicatrices: Central American Fiction in the 21st Century

Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative Analyses (Advances in Political Science)

Cultured Violence: Narrative, Social Suffering, and Engendering Human Rights in Contemporary South Africa (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines): 7