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Microfiction is some kind of boutade that, sadly, became serious business in Argentina (particularly in the Center, West and Northwest area of the country). There is now an incipient industry of microfiction growing in Argentina. Of literary that phenomenon has anything; it's more like people...

From that brochure I have read some works of Casas, Chejfec, Chitarroni, Coehlo, Cohen, Gamerro, Gandolfo, Heer, Guebel, Gusmán, Jeanmaire, Laiseca, Martini, Tununa Mercado, Rosetti and Matilde Sánchez. The other ones I have no idea who they are (but the trick there is that the brochure is...

Piglia's novel La ciudad ausente is one of the greatest books produced in Argentina in the last 30 years. That episode of the Planeta prize shows the miseries of the book business but doesn't turn La ciudad ausente into a forgetful work. Of that list I would erase Roberto Arlt. He is completly...

Really? Bioy Casares wrote in his diary an anecdote about The Tunnel. He says that Sabato gave him the novel, and ask him to "correct" it. Bioy did it: he took a red pencil and made a lot of annotations. Then, he send back the book to Sabato. The fact was that Sabato was waiting laudatory...

Borges was the best Argentinian writer of the XIX century. The best Argentinian writer of the XX century was Gombrowicz... or perhaps Bianciotti after 1982... or perhaps Wilcock after 1957. About the guys cited by Fausto: Lamborghini (I would include Benito Lynch, Borges and Mujica Lainez...