Mario Levrero

• May-2019
• / Literary
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A writer begins keeping a notebook of handwriting exercises hoping that, if he is able to improve his penmanship, he himself will also improve. What begins as a mere physical exercise is filled involuntarily with humorous reflections and tender anecd...

• Jul-2021
• / General Fiction
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A buoyant account of the nightly tug-of-war between a sleepy father and his son, and the richly imaginative "sleepy stories" they createEach story told in Sleepy Stories drifts deeper into a beguiling dream world, telling of an elastic gentleman who ...

• Aug-2021
• / Literary
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'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today; just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. […] But it's quite possible that if I go on writing â€" as I usually do â€" with no plan; although this ti...

• Oct-2024
• / Literary
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Widely viewed as one of the most inventive bodies of work from 20th-century Uruguay, Mario Levrero’s writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination. In none other of the author’s books is this imagination so clearly on display as i...