Zona de obras
Leila Guerriero
NON FICTION | 2014/2022 | 280 pages
Why, how, and for what do journalists write? What is their vocation made of, and what gives them purpose during these times? Zona de obras collects columns, conferences, and essays that the Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero has put together about these questions—texts that have been published in different places or read during various literary events in Latin America and Spain, and that are collected in one book for the first time. The result is a mural where each piece points to the heart of the profession, at once illuminating it and questioning it: when and how is the passion for writing born? How does it feed itself? Why is it worth taking a journalistic text to its maximum expressive potential?
This is a book about non-fiction writing, but also about cinema, comics, fine arts, childhood, Madame Bovary, Africa, parents, and readings. In each one of its pages, it exudes the conviction that journalism isn’t a minor genre, but a literary genre in itself.
RIGHTS: spanish EDITORIAL ANAGRAMA
“Leila Guerriero’s journalism is that of the best writers in The New Yorker, in order to establish a comparable level of excellence: it requires rigorous work, exhaustive investigation, and a mathematical kind of precision.”
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