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Paperback The Event Book

ISBN: 1852422491

ISBN13: 9781852422493

The Event

Blanco the magician is famous throughout Europe for his telepathic powers. Undermined by a conspiracy and exposed to the world as a charlatan, Blanco is forced to flee to Argentina, where he takes up... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Oligarchic vs. immigrant Argentina in the 19th century

THE EVENT is a first-rate ironic, even sarcastic treatment of the meeting of the two Argentinas in the second half of the 19th century, the "transparent" Argentina of the oligarchs and the "opaque" modern nation made up of European immigrants, such as the protagonist of Saer's novel. The book is a rare rendition of historical misunderstanding by one of the great Latin American narrators of our time, one who remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world
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