Three books by Argentine authors so as not to get lost

Three new works by Argentine writers, nationally and internationally consecrated, confirm the outstanding place they occupy. They probe if the strange thing is the most true, they go out to look for ghosts, they delegate the will to not understand.

Samanta Schweblin He surprised 23 years ago with his premium opera, “The nucleus of the disturbance”, Where with a personal style I had the quality of uneasy to uneasy with stories that without abandoning realism they bordered the limit of the real, something that was more disturbing. He lets know more than the uncertain and strange that life is usually, that “the strange is always more true” in “The good evil”his fourth story book, Schweblin accentuates his mastery. Six stories that install the reader in an impatient waiting for revelation, in something initially intimate, a memory, a call, and whose ending is never conclusive, but opens to illuminate memory, loneliness, guilt, lack of communication, affections. The protagonists are generally women.

The “William in the window” could be the same author, even if the axis is a cat. In “a fabulous animal” is a horse called Peta. “The eye in her throat” is told by a boy who swallows a pilita, and the adult who now is, and what accident allowed him to see. It is not easy to say that “the woman of Atlantis”, with those girls who invade the world of an alcoholic poet, is extraordinary, others are also, and perhaps more. There is one that some read thinking about our most immediate reality, but those are enjoyment offered by the pregnance of the best fiction. Schweblin is still in Berlin, but his starting points, often are here, in his country, who visits every so often for filiality and pleasure.

Leila Guerriero

Last year the dictatorship was clarified in another perverse aspect in “The call”By Leila Guerriero, chronicle based on an extensive interview with Silvia Labayrukidnapped, tortured and raped in the ESMA, and then criticized by her companions of Montoneros. The book was editorial success and considered internationally as one of the best non -fiction works of the year.

Guerriero He knows how to find songs everywhere. Invited by Finestres Literary Residence of the Cost “Breakfast in Tiffany”. There were not many people to interview that he met him and were alive, and of which there was no one who had exchanged more than three phrases with the writer and manipulated the memory. Cloak had gone to finish writing “In cold blood” that he considered the book of his life, and without a doubt it was, and made him founder of the non -fiction literature. Book of which later, at times, he abominated, which was published in 1966, when “Operation Massacre” of Walsh I had left ten years before. Guerriero Use research to deploy the arts of narrative journalism in a exciting way in “The difficulty of the ghost”.

Now it has also become editor of “The heart of the beast”captivating digital book that brings together five stories of Latin American journalists about the relationship between the human animal and the other animals.

Beatriz Sarlo

When Beatriz Sarlo He died in December last year appeared days later “Do not understand”his posthumous work. It is curious: his last book was the first in the first person, in surrendering to the literature of the self, in offering an autobiography with all that that entails. It is that “you have to earn the right to write in the first person,” he says. In his self -criticism, in his confessions, in declaring his superb or in his decision to be an intellectual when he still had no idea what he meant to be that, one feels that he will choose at times a overwhelming honesty. Attitude that he publicly used as an polemic disconcerting.

He never wanted to fall into the novel, but “Do not understand” It is a family novel, an initiation and culmination novel, among other things. It is the tour of the daughter of the antiperonist judge Saúl Sarlo Sabajaneswhom he always admired, and the girl who studied in Belgrano Girls School. But also of the niece of Jorge del RíoForge Member Lawyer, which made him love Eva Perón. Sarlo He decides that in these memories he will not talk about politics, but politics filters every time.

“For more than 30 years, politics was my visible aspect, he replaced the cultural analyst in the public space.” From the 70s he participated in artistic and cultural transformations through literary magazines, some that she helped to found, and the media. As a professor, she taught to read Argentine literature, Borges, Arlt, to Saer, added teachers, by case David Viñas, for pointing out one of the main ones. His classes in the UBA created addiction year after year. It is assumed that something similar happened to him when he dictated them in Berkeley, Columbia, Cambridge, Maryland, Chicago and Princeton.

The reader is taken in “Do not understand” For the interest of reading, to meet Betty, “La Sarlo”, leaving aside any questioning or replication, exaltation or commendation. At this time when there is a curious cultural battle, one can begin to miss the author of “The cultural machine “,” The Battle of Ideas “,” The two towers “among his thirty books, to recover his confrontational phrases, his loud impulses, and his call to “not understand”, not to allow us to understand what he does not deserve or that must be marked as a place for reflection.

Samanta Schweblin, “The Good Evil” (Bs.AS., Random, 2025, 189 pages)

Leila Guerriero, “The difficulty of the ghost” (Bs.AS., Anagrama, 2025, 133 pages)

Beatriz Sarlo, “Do not understand” (Bs.As. XXI Century, 2024, 214 pages)