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The Silentiary

Antonio di Benedetto
3.86/5 (329 ratings)
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The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choosing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape.

The Silentiary, along with Zama and The Suicides, is one of the three thematically linked novels by Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication “To the victims of expectation” in Zama. Together they constitute, in Juan José Saer’s words, “one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish.”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
176 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Edition:
NYRB Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1681375621
ISBN13:
9781681375625
kindle Asin:
B08PXW4PY5

The Silentiary

Antonio di Benedetto
3.86/5 (329 ratings)
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The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in middle management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choosing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape.

The Silentiary, along with Zama and The Suicides, is one of the three thematically linked novels by Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication “To the victims of expectation” in Zama. Together they constitute, in Juan José Saer’s words, “one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish.”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
176 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Edition:
NYRB Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1681375621
ISBN13:
9781681375625
kindle Asin:
B08PXW4PY5

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