Cuentos completos

This volume brings together the entirety of Ricardo Piglia's short story work, organized by the author himself shortly before his death. The short narrative runs through his entire literary career, and here the reader will find from his first volume of short stories, published in 1967 (later revised and expanded with new texts), to the latest productions in this field, written at the end of his life, between those that stand out The Cases of Commissioner Croce, homage and twist to the police genre that Piglia loved so much. And in between, the two long narrations of Perpetual Prison and the volumes False Name ?which includes a prodigious tribute to Roberto Arlt? and Moral Tales.The organization of this book allows, on the one hand, to appreciate the evolution of the storyteller Piglia and, on the other, to enjoy his rich versatility. His conception of the genre takes him from a beginning in which, in his own words, he took Hemingway and Borges as models, to increasingly hybrid, open and heterodox formulations of the short story: deliberately contaminating the story with the review, the story With the essay or fiction with the autobiography, Piglia elaborates texts that cross borders again and again and work with all possible variants of the narrative: the autobiography, the police tale, the historical account, the theoretical fiction, the diary, the sentimental story, the fantastic story.They are his narratives that, in addition to telling stories, open paths, explore limits and reflect on the art of storytelling. One after another they compose the portrait of the B-side of a country, of a society, and present a wide repertoire of characters, with a special fondness for losers. And among those characters, a recurring one, Emilio Renzi, a transcript of the author that appears throughout his work