Description

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For the last forty years, Marcelo Cohen has been developing and recording his passion for Barcelona and Buenos Aires, as well as literature, music, translation, and Maradona, reflected in the stories collected in this volume. Cohen offers insightful analyses about contemporary Argentinian literature and the country’s turbulent political context, as well as portraits of Barcelona’s Plaça Reial and Madrid’s Retiro Park, a theory of reading on public transportation, reflections on the art of translation, and more.

About the Author

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Marcelo Cohen is an Argentinian writer, translator, and literary critic. His work has appeared in the literary supplement of El País, and he was editor-in-chic of the magazine El viejo topo. He has also collaborated with La Vanguardia.