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Zusatztext Praise for Patricio Pron and Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets “This ambitious, challenging work breaks with form and reflects on the psychology of fascism.” — Washington Independent Review of Books “Part suspense novel. . . . Part historical investigation . . . A skillfully constructed exploration of past events that many Italians would just as soon forget.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Without a doubt, one of the greatest novels of the last several years. . . . Dazzling.” — Babelia / El País (Spain) “[Patricio Pron] probes the thorniest of ontological and epistemological questions, [and] compellingly displays—as well as explores—fiction’s power to unearth the most deeply buried emotional truths.” — The Independent (London) “ Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a feast.” — El Cultural (Spain) “Pron is an immense talent, a daring writer with an absolutely unique voice.” —Daniel Alarcón, author of Lost City Radio “A book of beauty and substance . . . A huge gift.” — Vozpópuli (Spain) “A decisive achievement . . . Reading this, one feels grateful that books of this quality are still being written.” — ABC Cultural (Spain) “An extraordinarily gifted writer.” —KUER radio (Salt Lake City) “In the wake of authors such as Enrique Vila-Matas or César Aira, Argentine writer Patricio Pron manages to double down on all the literary bets that came before him . . . With his previous work, Pron has more than demonstrated the greatness of his literary project and his talents as a writer; with Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets, he is at the pinnacle of Spanish literature.” — El Asombrario & Co. (Spain) “One of the finest novelists writing in Spanish today.” —Alberto Manguel, author of All Men Are Liars “Pron opens his eyes where the rest of us would rather close them and keep them closed.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Informers Informationen zum Autor Patricio Pron Klappentext A bold new novel about how art became politics and politics became crime, from one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists Pinerolo, Italy, April 1945. At a fascist conference, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or maybe a terrorist--interviews the survivors to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was this writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Leseprobe Turin November 1977 We grant to the young all the rights and authority that we deny and want to seize brutally from the old, the dying, and the dead. F. T. Marinetti, “The Necessity and Beauty of Violence” A few yards ahead, the old professor’s back curves in such a way that it’s impossible to see the nape of his neck; the hollow in his jacket is due to that curvature and to his habit of leading with his head as he walks. Pietro or Peter Linden—also called “Pitz” and “Peeke,” though only by his mother—knows this is called “swan neck,” a deformity that can be corrected, because he had it as a child and his mother corrected it in the style of those times, by placing a stack of books on his head and making him walk around the house without the books falling. From behind, Pietro or Peter Linden can see only the tip of the old professor’s ears and, crowning h...
