El último lector

"The Last Reader" opens the door to a labyrinth from which one does not always emerge successfully. As a work, it rediscovers and redefines the concept of "essay" and illuminates how the imaginary experience of reading is to be retold. Experience and reading, life as a reader, writer who marginally reads the tradition of the Río de la Plata, European and North American literature: all these lines are intertwined in the texts that make up this lucid and original book around the figure of the reader, of which Ricardo Piglia himself, one of the quintessential authors of contemporary Hispanic literature, stated that it was "the most personal and the most intimate" of all he had written.