{"title":"Antonio Di Benedetto","description":"Antonio di Benedetto (1922-1986) began his career as a journalist, writing for the Mendoza paper Los Andes. In 1953 he published his first book, a collection of short stories titled Mundo animal. Zama (NYRB Classics) was his first novel; it was followed by The Silentiary (NYRB Classics), The Suicides, and Sombras, nada m?s . . . Over the course of his career he received numerous honors, including a 1975 Guggenheim Fellowship and decorations from the French and Italian governments, and he earned the admiration of the likes of Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cort?zar, and Roberto Bola?o.","products":[{"product_id":"the-suicides-paperback","title":"The Suicides - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA reporter embarks on an investigation of a string of unconnected suicides--which then leads into an exploration of the phenomenon of suicide itself--in this elegant existential novel, the third and final volume of Antonio Di Benedetto's Trilogy of Expectation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A stymied reporter in his early thirties embarks on an investigation of three unconnected suicides. All he has to go on are photos of the faces of the dead. Other suicides begin to proliferate, while a colleague in the archives sends him historical justifications of self-murder by thinkers of all sorts: Diogenes, David Hume, Emile Durkheim, Margaret Mead. His investigation becomes an obsession, and he finds himself ever more attracted to its subject as it proceeds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e is the third volume of Antonio Di Benedetto's Trilogy of Expectation, a touchstone for Roberto Bola?o and deemed \"one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century fiction\" by Juan Jos? Saer. Following \u003ci\u003eZama\u003c\/i\u003e (set during the eighteenth century) and \u003ci\u003eThe Silentiary\u003c\/i\u003e (set during the 1950s), this final work takes place in a provincial city in the late 1960s, as Argentina plummets toward the \"Dirty War.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103724835039,"sku":"9781681378862","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xjrk1ZWWPk9781681378862.webp?v=1781097510"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/antonio-di-benedetto.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}