Los diarios de Emilio Renzi

This compendium brings together Ricardo Piglia’s monumental project: the three volumes of *The Diaries of Emilio Renzi*. Renzi—a writer and alter ego who appears and reappears in Piglia’s novels, sometimes fleetingly and at other times taking center stage—emerges from a play of mirrors rooted in the author’s full name: Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi. The publication of these diaries was acclaimed by both critics and readers alike. After a magnificent career comprising novels, short stories, and several volumes of essential essays, Ricardo Piglia looked back and recovered the diaries he had written over the course of more than half a century—between 1957 and 2015—incorporating other texts directly linked to them. Piglia meticulously, compulsively, and passionately chronicled the exploration of a life and creative journey defined by inquiries into the act of writing and its mechanisms, as well as by reflections on literature drawn from a wide range of reading. Penned by a master of Latin American letters, the diaries of Emilio Renzi became an essential classic of the genre the moment they were published.