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Articles by Robert Croll
Investigating 'The Murders of Moisés Ville'
“Murder of a young girl. Mystery around it — Public consternation ”: the news appeared on Tuesday, July 17, 1906, in the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación. It had arrived by telegraph from the correspondent in the province of Santa Fe — some 400 miles to the north — and said that among some tall reeds, near a train station, the body of a nineteen-year-old girl had been found.
Excerpt from Chapter 1 “The Journey” from The Murders of Moisés Ville by Javier Sinay, translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll
We make our way through the corners of the grand old building that houses the Buenos Aires Jewish Museum, following the guide—an elegant woman with a friendly smile—and looking at passing displays with old prayer books decorated in mother-of-pearl and gold leaf, a letter from Albert Einstein to the Argentine Jewish community, and even a table set with plastic food and electric candles in imitation of the Shabbat ceremony. “For Jewish people, Shabbat is the most important festival. Why?
‘Juan Hormiga’
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Ricardo Piglia’s Books of Disquiet
Novelist Ricardo Piglia’s struggle for freedom in 20th century Argentina. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms (Illustration by Andrea Ventura) In 2013, the Argentine novelist Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the degenerative disease that eventually killed him.
“The Book Upside Down”: A Conversation on Ricardo Piglia
The release of the English translation by Robert Croll of the first of three volumes of Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed autobiography, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Formative Years (Restless Books), is the excuse to bring his obsessions into focus. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is a classic. Indeed, not since Roberto Bolaño did a Latin America writer exert such influence on younger generations.
From The Diaries of Emilio Renzi by Ricardo Piglia
The publication this November of the first volume of Ricardo Piglia’s Diaries of Emilio Renzi from Restless Books marks the arrival of a major work of Latin American literature into the English language. A three-volume “autobiography” of Piglia doppelgänger Emilio Renzi that the author raced to finish before his death from ALS in 2017, the work grew out of some 300 notebooks Piglia kept throughout his life. It has been hailed as a masterpiece throughout the Spanish-language literary sphere.
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