Description:
Short description
Brutal and overwhelming, Confession wrestles with the legacy of Argentina's past and the passions of one young girl.
Brief description:
Martín Kohan enseña Teoría Literaria en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Ha publicado varios libros de ensayos, cuentos y siete novelas hasta el momento. Su obra es publicada por editoriales de enorme prestigio en Europa como Anagrama (España), Einaudi (Italia), Seuil (Francia) y Suhrkamp (Alemania). El XXV Premio Herralde de Novela otorgado a Ciencias morales, constituyó su definitiva consagración como uno de los autores más importantes del actual panorama literario internacional.
Martín Kohan was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He teaches Literary Theory at the University of Buenos Aires. To date, he has published several books of essays and short stories, and seven novels. His work has appeared with publishers of great prestige in Europe such as Anagrama (Spain), Einaudi (Italy), Seuil (France) and Suhrkamp (Germany). The 25th Premio Herralde de Novela awarded to Ciencias Morales (Moral Sciences ) consecrated him as one of the most important authors in today's international literary panorama.
Review Quotes:
"An expertly structured, morally complicated, and surprisingly timely blend of fact and fiction." --Kirkus
"Beguiling." --Publishers Weekly
"Hypnotic prose. A writer who owns a literary universe and a style all his own; a writer of unquestionable solidity." --El periódico
"A must-read." --Morning Star
"A stupendous novel." --El País
"One of Argentina's greatest living writers." --La gaceta literaria
"A fantastic writer whose texts question established ideas." --Letras Libres
"Kohan works with tradition and with the Borgesian idea of the traitor and the hero. He chooses three situations and explores them minutely." --La Nación
"Kohan's novel understands and helps to understand; it delimits, records, pursues and reaches the most slippery crevices of history." --Letralia
"The end result is a fluid, disturbing novel, one that neither resorts to low blows nor commonplaces when it comes to the military regime and the disappeared, but puts its finger on that concept that still causes unease when spoken aloud: civilian complicity." --La primera piedra
"Martín Kohan is becoming an obligatory name in Argentinian literature." --Pagina/12
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Praise for Martín Kohan
"The worthy successor of Borges, Sábato and Bioy Casares." --Le Devoir
"An expertly structured, morally complicated, and surprisingly timely blend of fact and fiction." --Kirkus
"Beguiling." --Publishers Weekly
"The prose of Argentinian writer Martín Kohan, above all in the most recent books, conveys a clinical precision and cool distance. From one novel to another, however, the effects are different. - Edmundo Paz Soldán"" --Edmundo Paz Soldán, author of TURING'S DELIRIUM and NORTE
"Hypnotic prose. A writer who owns a literary universe and a style all his own; a writer of unquestionable solidity." --El periódico
"Confession delves into Kohan's poetics in an agile and determined manner, preserving his affectionate distance from the intimate affairs of his characters, as well as his freedom vis-à-vis militant writing" --Latin American Literature Today
"A must-read." --Morning Star
"A stupendous novel." --El País
"One of Argentina's greatest living writers." --La gaceta literaria
"A fantastic writer whose texts question established ideas." --Letras Libres
"Kohan works with tradition and with the Borgesian idea of the traitor and the hero. He chooses three situations and explores them minutely." --La Nación
"Kohan's novel understands and helps to understand; it delimits, records, pursues and reaches the most slippery crevices of history." --Letralia
"The end result is a fluid, disturbing novel, one that neither resorts to low blows nor commonplaces when it comes to the military regime and the disappeared, but puts its finger on that concept that still causes unease when spoken aloud: civilian complicity." --La primera piedra
"Martín Kohan is becoming an obligatory name in Argentinian literature." --Pagina/12
"With a gift for totally natural dialogue, Kohan writes with an elegant lightness, paying great attention to rhythm. His specialty is the measured, exact word. Impeccable" --El Mundo
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