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A dizzying, fast-paced tour of Latin America provides one of the Spanish-speaking world's most outstanding writers with the occasion for an experimental travelogue somewhere between personal diary and critical essay. Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the 19 countries he visits after winning the Premio Alfaguara, Andres Neuman concludes that world travel consists mostly of 'not seeing'. Turning the fleeting nature of his trip into a creative and critical advantage, he writes a work that is whimsical and fun, poetic and aphoristic.

Taut and contemplative, these poems ruminate on family, exile, love, and the vagaries of human perception. Love Training encapsulates Andrés Neuman’s work as a poet, spanning two decades in a single unified collection. The book is divided into three sections that complement and respond to each other. The first, “Love Training,” focuses on family, loss, relationships, desire, and a sense of anchoring in the world. The second, “Fictions of Sight,” is concerned with questions of perception, perspective, language and creativity. The third, “I Don’t Know Why,” is a whimsical set of interconnected poems that ask unanswered questions, serving as a kind of coda. While Andrés Neuman is a rightly celebrated and widely translated novelist, he is also a lucid—and quite prolific—poet. Love Training is the first volume to make his sensitive, incisive poems available in English.

Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through the puzzles, Demetrio inspects and sorts through his own memories. At the end of the journey through his history, the present seems to devour him, until he's left with only the emptiness of himself and his daily misery. A parable of memory and deterioration, Andr s Neuman's Bariloche juxtaposes the astonished memories of youth with a skeptical conscience; the impossible idealization of nature or first love with the moral and physical suffocation of the big city; being uprooted with returning to one's origins, with a language fascinated by both lyricism and rottenness.

In the era of compulsive touch-ups and digital poses, perhaps it is time to re-read our body in order to rescue it. The thirty chapters of Sensitive Anatomy form a celebration of the body in its entirety. This is a poetic, political and erotic journey across the very matter that makes us. It is a book that reveals how we see ourselves and how we are made to see. It stands against the culture of Photoshop, against oppressive images, against edits and erasures. In this way, Neuman continues to extend the limits of short-form prose with irony and aplomb. Body as style, style as body.

Roman predstavljaet soboj grandioznyj literaturnyj eksperiment - popytku uvidet XIX vek iz veka XXI-go, issledovat istoki sovremennykh konfliktov. Eto svoeobraznyj dialog mezhdu klassicheskim romanom i avangardistskoj formoj, kotoryj svjazyvaet istoriju i problemy sovremennosti: emigratsiju, multikulturalizm, natsionalizm, zhenskuju emansipatsiju, i vse eto vstroeno v jarkuju sjuzhetnuju liniju s intrigami, zagadkami, jumorom v sochetanii s ostro-individualnym stilem."Literatura XXI veka prinadlezhit Neumanu i ego krovnym bratjam" (Roberto Bolano).Roman udostoen premii Alfaguara, odnoj iz samykh prestizhnykh literaturnykh premij XXI veka i rjada drugikh.