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Rodrigo Fresán. Bottom of the Sky

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Praise for Rodrigo Fresán

“In this latest work from Rodrigo Fresán, the Argentine writer succeeds in offering us a book that closely resembles what he calls an ‘orphan book.’ These are books that come out of nowhere and that probably have no descendants, books like Nightwood by Djuana Barnes or Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever. They are books that feed on themselves, that are self-sufficient like autonomous machines, and that generally possess immense poetic force. In The Bottom of the Sky, Fresán writes the book that will come immediately after the era of apocalyptic books—the era that began with the Bible and the Aeneid, and culminated with postmodern books about the end of all possible worlds.”—Enrique Vila-Matas

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And the two of us there, in the snow, standing in front of all those snowmen and that huge sphere. And it was as if we—Ezra and I—were ascending through the snow, motionless but alive in the pale light of the new day. And it was as if each snowflake—distinct from all the others—were a singular star. And snow—see the snow, feel the snow—makes everyone more poetic and makes me a bad poet.

And a gust of wind and you in the window.

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