El milagro secreto de Emilio Renzi: Otra vuelta a la novela del porvenir

• Main Author: Sergio Waisman
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata 2019-02-01
• Series: Cuadernos LIRICO
• Subjects: Piglia; Renzi; novel for/from the future; travels; translations
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lirico/7871

This article analyzes the effect of the publication of Los diarios de Emilio Renzi in the concept of Ricardo Piglia’s “novela del porvenir”. A partial reading of the Diarios is made next to several specific moments from Piglia’s work, in which the process of writing itself (nearly invisible, primarily secret) is narrated by Renzi —from Nombre falso, through Respiración artificial, and including some of Junior’s travels in La ciudad ausente—. The article is written from the author’s perspective as one of Piglia’s translators into English, and it incorporates observations and a few examples of his collaboration with Piglia from the last twenty-five years. It concludes with reflections about the tragic end of Ricardo Piglia’s (and Emilio Renzi’s) life.