ABSTRACT
Julio Ramn Ribeyro seemed naturally to find himself in circumstances where he did not quite belong. In the 1930s and 1940s when he grew up, Lima was already becoming transformed from an old colonial city into the sprawling metropolis of today, with the massive migration of people from the Andes. By the time he left Argentina for Paris in 1968, Juan Jos Saer had already written six books of stories and novels set in a fictional version of his native Santa Fe. The ensemble of Saer's fiction, as a single project, has developed in multiple directions to elaborate an ongoing topography of the zone, with its privileged and recognizable places, as Maria Teresa Gramuglio describes it. He displaces the traditional totalizing forms of representation with a detailed and reiterative registering of perception that allows him to treat the more elusive aspects of reality time, space, being, things.
