Formas breves

A fascinating collection of short pieces, ranging from mysterious autobiographical moments (but are they in fact real?) to some lucid and penetrating essays on the short story. Piglia stands on the shoulders of those two giants, Borges and Arlt, from which he ventures even farther into the secret nexus of fiction and life. Some pieces demand to be read slowly or repeatedly to truly absorb the intoxicating brilliance of Piglia's vision.