Mr. Optimus Oloop is a Finnish statistician living in Buenos Aires.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Juan Filloy
EAN: 9781564784346
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 252
WEIGHT: 326 g
HEIGHT: 200 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Dalkey Archive Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-09-17
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary
WIDTH: 141 mm
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Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Juan Filloy was an excellent swimmer, dedicated boxing referee, and talented caricaturist; he spoke seven languages and he practised as a judge in the small town of Rio Cuarto, 200 kilometres from Cordoba, where he spent nearly the whole of his life. He died in 2000 at the age of 106. A world champion palindromist, he made use of the entire dictionary in his books, coined new words, and used only seven letters in all the titles of his works. He received various distinctions during his lifetime and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University and has translated numerous works of fiction by Argentine, Mexican, Catalan, and Spanish writers. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.
