The Sixty-Five Years of Washington, (Paperback)

<p>"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's <i>The Sixty-Five Years of Washington</i> captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety."--<i>New York Times</i></p><p>It's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician--wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white--is just back from a grand tour of Europe. He's on his way to drop off a press release about the trip to the papers when he runs into Ángel Leto, a relative newcomer to Santa Fe who does some accounting, but who this morning has decided to wander the town rather than go to work.</p><p>One day soon, The Mathematician will disappear into exile after his wife's assassination, and Leto will vanish into the guerrilla underground, clutching his suicide pill like a talisman. But for now, they settle into a long conversation about the events of Washington Noriega's sixty-fifth birthday--a party neither of them attended.</p><p>Saer's <i>The Sixty-Five Years of Washington</i> is simultaneously a brilliant comedy about memory, narrative, time, and death and a moving narrative about the lost generations of an Argentina that was perpetually on the verge of collapse.</p><p><b>Juan José Saer</b> was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections (including <i>Scars</i> and <i>La Grande</i>), Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for <i>The Event.</i></p><p><b>Steve Dolph</b> is the founder of <i>Calque</i>, a journal of literature in translation. His translation of Juan José Saer's <i>Scars</i> was a finalist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award.</p>

• The Sixty-Five Years of Washington, (Paperback)
• Author: Open Letter
• ISBN: 9781934824207
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2010-11-15
• Page Count: 203