Juan José Saer

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Juan José Saer


Born
in Serodino, Argentina
June 28, 1937

Died
June 11, 2005

Genre

Influences


Juan José Saer was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. He is considered the most important writer of Argentina after Jorge Luis Borges and the best Argentine writer of the second half of the 20th century.

Average rating: 3.99 · 11,626 ratings · 1,534 reviews · 83 distinct worksSimilar authors
El entenado

3.94 avg rating — 3,401 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
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La pesquisa

3.92 avg rating — 1,198 ratings — published 1994 — 32 editions
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Scars

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3.91 avg rating — 1,129 ratings — published 1969 — 27 editions
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Glosa

4.24 avg rating — 781 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions
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El limonero real

4.21 avg rating — 785 ratings — published 1974 — 11 editions
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The Clouds

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3.87 avg rating — 732 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions
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Nadie nada nunca

4.17 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 1980 — 15 editions
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La ocasión

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La Grande

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4.13 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2005
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Responso

3.81 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions
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“Por el modo de vestirse, cada uno hace de su cuerpo una ficción.”
Juan José Saer, Glosa

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

“Entre tantas cosas extrañas, el sol periódico, las estrellas puntuales y numerosas, los árboles que repiten, obstinados, el mismo esplendor verde cuando vuelve, misteriosa, su estación, el río que crece y se retira, la arena amarilla y el aire de verano que cabrillean, el cuerpo que nace, cambia, y muere, palpitante, la distancia y los días, enigmas que cada uno cree, en sus años de inocencia, familiares, entre todas esas presencias que parecen ignorar la nuestra, no es difícil que algún día, ante la evidencia de lo inexplicable, se instale en nosotros el sentimiento, no muy agradable por cierto, de atravesar una fantasmagoría, un sentimiento semejante al que me asaltaba, a veces, en el escenario del teatro cuando, entre telones pintados, ante una muchedumbre de sombras adormecidas, veía a mis compañeros y a mí mismo repetir gestos y palabras de las que estaba ausente lo verdadero. Pero esa impresión, que todos tenemos alguna vez, es, aunque intensa, pasajera, y no nos penetra hasta confundirse con nuestras vidas. Un día, cuando menos nos lo esperábamos, nos asalta, súbita; durante unos minutos, las cosas conocidas se muestran independientes de nosotros, inertes y remotas a pesar de su proximidad.”
Juan José Saer, The Witness

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