A runaway train as parable of dictatorship in Eduardo F. Varela's "Pampa"
Le Monde reviews the Argentine novelist and screenwriter's new book, a political and metaphysical tale set aboard a train hurtling across the pampas.
Le Monde's books section has reviewed "Pampa", a novel by the Argentine writer and screenwriter Eduardo F. Varela, describing it as a runaway train that becomes a forceful evocation of Latin America's dictatorships.
According to the newspaper, the book unfolds as a caustic and unsettling political-metaphysical tale. Beyond that summary, no further detail on plot, publisher or translator was given in the source material.
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