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A Celebration of Zama, with Esther Allen & Álvaro Enrigue

Join New York Review Books to at the Community Bookstore to celebrate Antonio di Benedetto’s Zama, a masterpiece of Argentine literature translated into English for the first time. Don Diego de Zama is an official of the Spanish crown at the end of the 18th century in Paraguay. Consumed by pride, lust, pettiness, and paranoia, he does little but dream of a transfer to Buenos Aires and a better life. Benedetto’s stark, spare description of Zama’s slow drift into perdition has been praised by Borges, Bolaño, Cortazar, and many more. Translator Esther Allen discusses Benedetto’s opus with author Álvaro Enrigue.











When: Wed., Sep. 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Community Bookstore
143 Seventh Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
718-783-3075
Price: Free
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Join New York Review Books to at the Community Bookstore to celebrate Antonio di Benedetto’s Zama, a masterpiece of Argentine literature translated into English for the first time. Don Diego de Zama is an official of the Spanish crown at the end of the 18th century in Paraguay. Consumed by pride, lust, pettiness, and paranoia, he does little but dream of a transfer to Buenos Aires and a better life. Benedetto’s stark, spare description of Zama’s slow drift into perdition has been praised by Borges, Bolaño, Cortazar, and many more. Translator Esther Allen discusses Benedetto’s opus with author Álvaro Enrigue.

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