A Long Day in Venice: A Memoir

The first English translation of Vivir Venecia, a memoir by the Argentine living classic Abel Posse. Novelist, essayist, poet, career diplomat and politician, Posse has written fourteen novels (including the much-acclaimed Daim�n and The Dogs of Paradise), seven collections of essays, an extensive journalistic work, numerous short stories and poems. In A Long Day in Venice, Posse recounts with nostalgia, lucidity and passion his six years spent as a "consul in exile" in the most unusual city on earth. Diplomacy, politics, writing, public and private life, encounters with Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto S�bato, Abelardo Arias, Alejo Carpentier, Alberto Moravia, Joseph Brodsky and other writers and artists, with Venice as a dazzling backdrop... An unmissable memoir for lovers of literature and history.

• | Author: Abel Posse, George Henson
• | Publisher: Betimes Books
• | Publication Date: Oct 27, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 330 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1916156533
• | ISBN-13: 9781916156531