The Silentiary
Di Benedetto, Antonio / Allen, Esther / Saer, Juan José From the author of Zama, another tale of expectation, ambition, and longing set in post-WWII South America.The Silentiary (1964) happens in a nameless Latin-American city during the years after World War II. A young man employed in mid-level management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary preconditions.It is the second of three novels by Antonio Di Benedetto that have come to be known a...