El rescate de un Hemingway inedito: la gran tarea de Ricardo Piglia antes de morir. Los cimientos de la teoria del iceberg de Hemingway reunidos por primera vez con un prologo magistral de Ricardo Piglia. […] Un libro fundamental, de indisoluble unidad tematica, de estilo e incluso interpretativa. .-Matias Nespolo, El Mundo

Hemingway publico En nuestro tiempo, su primer libro de cuentos, en 1925. Tenia veintiseis anos y ya escribia como un veterano. Esta primera edicion en espanol, deuda incomprensible que debia ser saldada, respeta el orden original de un libro de cuentos que por su organicidad y consistencia interna puede tambien leerse como una novela fragmentada. La guerra y el alcohol, la pesca y los toros, la soledad atormentada de Nick Adams ya estan aqui, orbitando alrededor de ese nucleo emocional que Hemingway nunca nombra pero hacia el que sus relatos siempre gravitan.

Ricardo Piglia tenia dieciocho anos cuando encontro un ejemplar usado de In Our Time en una libreria de Mar del Plata. Lo leyo entero esa misma tarde. Su prologo a esta edicion (que escribio poco antes de su muerte) invita a los fieles lectores de Hemingway a participar de un dialogo iluminador y es, al mismo tiempo, una inmejorable presentacion para aquellos afortunados a punto de cruzar esta puerta por primera vez.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The revival of a previously unpublished Hemingway: Ricardo Piglia’s last great work. The foundations of Hemingway’s iceberg theory gathered for the first time, with a masterful prologue by Ricardo Piglia. […] A fundamental book of unbreakable thematic, stylistic, and even interpretive unity. -Matias Nespolo, El Mundo

Hemingway published In Our Time, his first book of short stories, in 1925. He was 26 years old and already wrote like a veteran. This first Spanish-language edition, so long overdue, respects the original order of a short story compilation that, because of its organic nature and internal consistency, can also be read as a fragmented novel. War and alcohol, fishing and bulls, Nick Adams’ tormented solitude, they are all here, orbiting around that emotional nucleus that Hemingway never names but which gives his tales such weight.

Ricardo Piglia was 18 years old when he found a used copy of In Our Time in a bookstore in Mar del Plata. He read the whole thing that same afternoon. His prologue to this edition (which he wrote shortly before his death) invites faithful readers of Hemingway to participate in an illuminating dialogue and is at the same time a superb introduction for those lucky few who are about to dive in for the first time.