Plano americano
Leila Guerriero
NON FICTION | 2018 | 568 pages
Twenty-six portraits of Spanish and Hispanic creators. An imposing display of the best cultural journalism.
This volume includes twenty-six profiles—including five new ones that have been added to the version originally published in 2013—of Hispanic writers, artists, journalists, photographers, film directors, editors, designers, and musicians that Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero has published throughout the course of more than a decade in some of Latin America and Spain’s leading newspapers and magazines.
This incredibly personal cartography collects portraits of different people, from the incendiary Nicanor Parra to the unsettling Idea Vilariño, from the raging Fogwill to the discrete Guillermo Kuitca, from the splendid Sara Facio to the unbridled Marta Minujín, from the labyrinthian Ricardo Piglia to the enigmatic Roberto Arlt. And, through Guerriero’s voice and eye, they allow us to approach an entire continent’s creative sensibility. Plano americano also functions as an intricate system of vessels that communicate with each other, where multiple characters appear and reappear in subsequent pieces and end up drawing the portrait of a time period.
Each one of these texts is a great exercise in cultural journalism and an extraordinary literary proposal. With the touch of a goldsmith—thoroughness, precision, elegance—the author puts forth a total immersion in the universe of a creator in each one of these profiles.
RIGHTS: spanish EDITORIAL ANAGRAMA
“A superb chronicler and reporter, in our language and in others.”
“This book proves that good journalism and good literature are one and the same, and that Leila Guerriero knows how to write that thing (whatever you choose to call it) like no other contemporary Latin American journalist.”
“Her reporting isn’t read—it’s devoured.”
BY LEILA GUERRIERO:
La llamada
NONFICTION, 2024
Zona de obras
ESSAYS, 2014/2022
La otra guerra
NON FICTION, 2021
Frutos extraños
NON FICTION, 2009/2020
Teoría de la gravedad
ESSAYS, 2019
Opus Gelber
NON FICTION, 2019
Plano americano
NON FICTION, 2013/2018
Una historia sencilla
NON FICTION, 2013
Los suicidas del fin del mundo
NON FICTION, 2004