Apex 327 pages
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Sudamericana, 2004
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The city -Buenos Aires- emerges slowly in this novel, and it is the city we deserve, the novel-city of the present. Action and geography seem to walk together and, sometimes, join efforts to keep the characters of the story apart, missing each other in the places where they should have met. And the other way round. In this way, we -the readers- can discover details that a more general view would never show us. Up close, Apex seems to say, every act is a criminal act; up close, every fictional character is a monster. Over the years, Ferreyra has created a very personal style: abundant and baffling. With much of the best XIXth Century novels, he knows how to describe, suggest and theorize without loosing dramatic power.
Gustavo Ferreyra was born in Buenos Aires in 1963. He studied Sociology and works as a professor. He writes for different media in Argentina and Spain. In 2003, he was a finalist at the Premio Clar铆n.
Other works by the author: Novels: El amparo (1994) El desamparo (1999) Gineceo (2001) El director (2006) Short Stories: El perd贸n (1997)
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Gustavo Ferreyra
Gustavo Ferreyra