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Out of this world: The Suicides, by Antonio di Benedetto, reviewed

Written as Argentina descended into the Dirty War, this eerie fable about a reporter investigating a spate a suicides is thrillingly original

7 December 2024

9:00 AM

7 December 2024

9:00 AM

The Suicides ntonio di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen

NYRB, pp.136, 15.99

The NYRB logo is now something my eye leaps to when browsing, and the publisher’s eclectic range has proved consistently rewarding. The Argentine writer Antonio di Benedetto was praised by Borges, Bolaño, Cortázar and Coetzee. He was born in 1922, on 2 November, the Day of the Dead – which he made much of – and was imprisoned and tortured in 1976-77, during Argentina’s Dirty War.

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