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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

“The Bottom of the Sky shows us that reality is a kind of science fiction; science fiction has become reality. And while terrorism, invasions, and unending wars have led humans to treat one another like alien species, Fresán asks us to imagine that love, in its purest form, can survive and even triumph over chaos and brutality.”

—Rachel Cordasco, Speculative Fiction in Translation

“Rodrigo Fresán is a marvelous writer, a direct descendent of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges, but with his own voice and of his own time, with a fertile imagination, daring and gifted with a vision as entertaining as it is profound.”—John Banville

“The Bottom of the Sky is an exuberant story transcending both space and time, shaded with hues paying homage to the sci-fi greats (with so many literary [and pop culture] nods along the way: Vonnegut, Dick, Cheever, Bioy Casares, Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, et al.). Fresán’s ambitious tale is, at once, a love story, an enigmatic eschatological puzzle, a book rooted firmly in the present while simultaneously orbiting in a far-off realm, and a genre-transcending work unbound by formulaic construct or conceit. [. . .] Read Fresán. And then tell everyone you know to read him, too.”—Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Books

“A vast Argentinean bildungsroman of reading and writing, Rodrigo Fresán’s The Invented Part . . . offers one form of resistance to encroaching fascism: style.”—Adam Thirlwell

“A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.”—Jonathan Lethem

“I’ve read few novels this exciting in recent years. Mantra is the novel I’ve laughed with the most, the one that has seemed the most virtuosic and at the same time the most disruptive.”—Roberto Bolaño

“[The Invented Part is] a tour de force. . . . Invented, and deeply inventive as well, an exemplary postmodern novel that is both literature and entertainment.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

“The question of whether The Invented Part is a novel was a rhetorical exercise meant to draw out certain aspects of this text. Of course, it is a novel. It is, however, something much more: a resounding refutation of the assertion that the novel is dead, and a statement of how omnivorous and adaptable the form is.”—George Henson, Quarterly Conversation

“Rodrigo Fresán elegantly balances the strange with the common, the experimental with the traditional, and the result is one of the most satisfying postmodern novels in recent memory.”—Benjamin Woodard, Numero Cinq

“If Borges and Pynchon fell off a boat, Fresán would be the one to come out of the water.”—Gilles Heuré, Télérama