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Archipelago Books

Nest in the Bones

Nest in the Bones

Stories by Antonio di Benedetto

by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated from the Spanish by Martina Broner

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Nest in the Bones: Stories by Antonio di Benedetto brings together over twenty pieces of short fiction spanning three decades from one of the great Latin American authors of the twentieth century, reflecting Di Benedetto's mastery of the short form as well as his impressive range across genres and styles. Often dark and unexpectedly moving, his stories explore the liminal spaces between fantasy and reality, tragedy and melodrama, and civilization and barbarism.

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Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9780914671725
Pages: 250
Publication Date:

Praise

This collection from renowned Argentinean author Di Benedetto (Zama) showcases his short stories’ development from sparse and experimental into melancholic, deeply affecting fables... These stories bolster Di Benedetto’s reputation as a visionary talent, and serve as a worthy introduction to one of Latin America’s most influential writers.
—Publishers Weekly

[B]lends the fantastic sensibilities of Borges and Kafka with the profound pessimism of Dostoyevsky... Di Benedetto's view of the world is gloomy, his writing precise and poetic. It's a winning combination.
—Kirkus Reviews

an impressive swath of subjects, emotions and perspectives. . . Readers with a love of Latin American authors will find Di Benedetto a welcome addition to the canon that's available in English.
—Noah Cruickshank, the Field Museum, in Shelf Awareness

In every story, the Argentine journalist confronts bare suffering with a linguistic precision and a talent for imagery that his translator, Martina Broner, captures effortlessly... Nest in the Bones offers a whirlwind introduction to a writer whose enormous weight in Latin America is finally becoming palpable outside its borders.
—Harvard Review

Very well translated... displays to perfection...the range of [Di Benedetto’s] experiments with strangeness...Di Benedetto’s characters, with their ‘secret wounds, their isolation and their irony, and above all their lightly masochistic self-irony,’ are companions of those of Svevo, Pessoa and Kafka.
—London Review of Books

[ Nest in the Bones is] a sampling of the Argentine’s short fiction... demonstrating an extraordinary experimental and emotional range that Zama—largely confined as it is to the perspective of a single self-centered narrator—could only hint at.
—Public Books

Di Benedetto has written indispensable pages that have moved and continue moving me.
—Jorge Luis Borges

"One of the greatest Argentinean writers and one of the greatest writers of Latin America." — Roberto Bolaño

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