“A powerful dose of literature: political, skeptical, open and vulnerable, linguistically seductive, finely built, with a good amount of humor.”

“In Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets [...], Patricio Pron [...] questions a century of violence about the reasons why people kill each other for an idea. The novel [...] encompasses politics, art and violence in what is probably his most ambitious work to date. The fuse is lit by one of the most exciting and dangerous aesthetic movements, the father of vanguards, beloved by both the far right and the far left: futurism.”

“Pron’s extensive, occasionally exhaustive prose quickly resolves in irony with magnificent and festive precision. Pron’s writing has the rare virtue of exhibiting narrative and essayistic intelligence, without falling behind in either aspect. [...] Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a feast.”

“Each and every day bad books reach readers’ hands in greater volume, along with tired and pretentious books,
ones that don’t even deserve the name. That’s why when a book with beauty and substance arrives, readers feel the gratefulness of those who have been forgotten or orphaned. Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a great refuge for anyone who is bored being stuck with redundant and obvious readings. The newest work by Pron is a book that gets into trouble, it doesn’t avoid the rough and tumble parts of literature nor does it hide between the skirts of indignant novels or harmless auto-fiction. Patricio Pron doesn’t want to be Chirbes. Or Vila-Matas. He doesn’t want to be anyone: being himself is enough.”

“With dense prose full of nuance, Pron’s novel exemplifies how certain authors have kowtowed to fascism, at the same time it explores the possibilities of being a dissident and shows the resonances between past and present, wondering, among other questions, about the legitimacy of violence.”

“Pron has written a political novel that apparently speaks of the past to talk about the present. An author in his prime, dominating his craft. With enormous effort (but also with the ease and joy from being both the master and aware of one’s talent) he has created a well-rounded work. ”

“Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a novel of Ideas (in upper case letters) which refers to politics (in lower case) because it has been created based on the ambition to respond to questions about the purpose of literature and why it is necessary to write when the world is falling apart.”