Juan José Saer

ARGENTINA, 1937 - PARIS, 2005

He settled in Paris in 1968, and began teaching at the University of Rennes. The vast narrative achievement of Juan José Saer, considered one of the maximum expressions of contemporary literature in Spanish, consists of twelve novels, five collections of stories, several essay collections and one book of poetry. His narratives form a cycle, characterized by a concrete landscape, the Litoral region of Santa Fe where he was born, and a rich complex array of characters which expand and branch out in episodes outlined in one text and taken up again, much later, in another. Among the many awards he received, noteworthy are the Nadal Prize 1986 for the novel The Occasion and the France Culture Prize 2003 for the best book written by a foreigner. In 2004, he was awarded the Unione Latina di Letterature Romanze, instituted by the trust of the Presidency of the Republic of Italy with the patronage of several ministries of this country in addition to the Ministries of Culture of Spain and Portugal, the Instituto Cervantes and various others institutions.

“Saer has constructed an extraordinary architecture based on a multitude of infinitely intercut plans […] one could say that saer has read all literature, listen to every kind of music, debated all the philosophers, and that the mixed waters of the rio de la Plata sweep along a joyful and inimitable discourse that flows between the shores of all cultures”

LE MONDE

“...to say that Juan Jose Saer is the best contemporary argentinean writer is to do an injustice to his achievement. More exact would be to say that Saer is one of the best contemporary writers in any language and that his work, like that of Thomas Bernhard or Samuel Becket, exists beyond all frontiers, in that no man's land which is the unique region of literature...”

RICARDO PIGLIA

"A perfect writer from the very start"

BEATRIZ SARLO

"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's novel captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety, as well as the "blind, incomprehensible, ceaseless drift" of time." JASCHA HOFFMAN (THE NEW YORK TIMES), about The Sixty-five years of Washington [Glosa]

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By Juan José Saer

Trabajos

ESSAYS, 2006
The Big One

NOVEL, 2005

Final novel, this vast gallery of characters described in a vivid and meticulous style is also a compendium of the entire work of Saer and the culmination of his literary project. Another return...
Cuentos completos

SHORT STORIES , 2001
Lugar

SHORT STORIES, 2000
La narración objeto

ESSAYS, 1999
The clouds

NOVEL, 1997
El concepto de ficción

ESSAYS, 1997
La pesquisa

NOVEL, 1994

This labyrinthine work by Juan José Saer contains two parallel investigations into the complexities of madness, memory and crime. The cases; the famous mystery of a series of murders in...
Lo imborrable

NOVEL, 1992
El rio sin orillas

ESSAYS, 1991
La ocasión

NOVEL, 1986
The Sixty-Five Years of Washington

NOVEL, 1985
The Stepchild

NOVEL, 1983

Through the history of a Spanish voyage to Río de la Plata (today’s Argentina), a sixteenth-century member of the expedition travels through wild, nightmarish lands inhabited by...
Nadie nada nunca

NOVEL, 1980
El arte de narrar

POETRY, 1977
La mayor

SHORT STORIES, 1976
El limonero real

NOVEL, 1974
Cicatrices

NOVEL, 1969
Unidad de lugar

SHORT STORIES, 1967
La vuelta completa

NOVEL, 1966
Palo y hueso

SHORT STORIES, 1965
Responso

NOVEL, 1964
En la zona

SHORT STORIES, 1960

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