Silhouettes

by Luis Chitarroni, Allison deFreese (Translator)

First published in 1992, Silhouettes ―translated for the first time into English―is a set of exercises. Each story involves an epiphany, which illuminates from their biographies the work of famous novelists and poets, both real and Italo Svevo, Djuna Barnes, Arno Schmidt, Flann O'Brien, among many others. With the same grace of John Aubrey or Borges, Luis Chitarroni acts as if the greatest adventures in literature are given in the unknowns and scenarios that literature itself creates.

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Published June 1, 2021

About the author

Luis Chitarrroni (Buenos Aires, 1958) es escritor, crítico y editor. Publicó los libros: Siluetas (un catálogo biográfico de escritores reales e imaginarios, que había escrito para la revista Babel), las novelas El carapálida (Tusquets, 1997) y Peripecias del no. Diario de una novela inconclusa (Interzona, 2007), además del libro de ensayos Mil tazas de té (La bestia equilátera,2008). Suele colaborar con diversos medios.