Rodrigo Fresán

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Rodrigo Fresán (b. 1963, Buenos Aires) is the author of Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, and more. Translations into English include Kensington Gardens (Natasha Wimmer, FSG), The Bottom of the Sky (Will Vanderhyden, Open Letter), and The Invented Part (Vanderhyden, Open Letter).

  • The cover to Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán

    Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán

    Rodrigo Fresán
    Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2024. 360 pages.Rodrigo Fresán is skeptical about the merits of fiction featuring famed, long-dead authors. In a previous novel, his narrator describ…
  • The cover to The Dreamed Part by Rodrigo Fresán

    The Dreamed Part by Rodrigo Fresán

    Rodrigo Fresán
    Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2019. 545 pages. In Rodrigo Fresán’s The Dreamed Part, one of his book-besotted characters spends many hours rereading a single story, a “mad and wise” tale…
  • The cover to The Bottom of the Sky by Rodrigo Fresán

    The Bottom of the Sky by Rodrigo Fresán

    Rodrigo Fresán
    Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2018. 266 pages.This intricate novel is packed with ruminations on scientific research, mortality, and the military-industrial complex, but at its core The Bottom…
  • A painting with numerous brown-skinned people shrouded in dusk gesturing at a wildly-garbed priest standing on the stairs of an Aztec temple

    Ancient History

    May 2018
    Rodrigo Fresán
    Blood War, 2016, by Jia How Lee. The concept art is based on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Years ago the man got married and years ago the man became unhappy in his marriage.…