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.
