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Juan José Saer

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born

June 28, 1937 in Argentina

died

June 11, 2005

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Juan José Saer was one of the most important Argentine novelists of the last fifty years.
Born to Syrian immigrants in Serodino, a small town in the Santa Fe Province, he studied law and philosophy at the National University of the Littoral, where he taught History of Cinematography. Thanks to a scholarship, he moved to Paris in 1968. He had recently retired from his position as a lecturer at the University of Rennes, and had almost finished his final novel, La Grande(2005), which has since been published posthumously, along with a series of critical articles on Latin American and European writers, Trabajos (2006).
Saer's novels frequently thematize the situation of the self-exiled writer through the figures of two twin brothers, one of whom...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 184 ratings · 24 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Scars by Juan José Saer, Steve Dolph (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1969 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Sixty-Five Years of Washington by Juan José Saer, Steve Dolph (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Witness by Juan Jos? Saer, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Nubes, Las (Biblioteca Breve) 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Glosa 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nobody Nothing Never by Juan Jos? Saer, Helen Lane (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	El Limonero Real 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	La Pesquisa 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Event by Juan Jos? Saer, Helen Lane (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	La Mayor 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“El momento presente no tiene más fundamento que su parentesco con el pasado.”
― Juan José Saer, El Entenado

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“Esos recuerdos no se presentan en forma de imágenes sino más bien como estremecimientos, como nudos sembrados en el cuerpo, como palpitaciones, como rumores inaudibles, como temblores”
― Juan José Saer, El Entenado

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“Tierra, cielo vacío, carne degradada y delirio, con el sol arriba, pasando, desdeñoso y periódico, por los siglos de los siglos: así se presentaba, ante mis ojos recién nacidos, esa mañana, la realidad.”
― Juan José Saer

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