It’s still not right
Adam Thirlwell: ‘Empty Words’, 19 March 2020
Empty Words
by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott.
And Other Stories, 152 pp., £8.99, May 2019,978 1 911508 50 2 Show More
by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott.
And Other Stories, 152 pp., £8.99, May 2019,
“... the ‘free narrative act’ that is the novel’s hidden aim.This elegant translation by Annie McDermott is the first English version of Levrero’s work. Even in Spanish, he has a reputation as one of the raros – a writer at once celebrated and occluded. I first heard of him from Alejandro Zambra, the Chilean novelist, who especially admires ... ”