Reviewed by Sarah HayesPUSHKIN PRESS, 158pp, £8.99Tablet bookshop price £8.10 Tel 01420 592974The Spanish-Argentinian writer Andrés Neuman, who is still in his thirties, has already published 22 titles in a wide range of genres. His novels, short stories, poems and essays have won major European prizes. So why is his new novel, Talking to Ourselves (Hablar Solos) only the second of his works to find its way into English? Neuman himself would give us two answers, one paradoxical and the other contradictory. That’s the sort of writer he is: an intellectual trickster, not unlike the magician in Talking to Ourselves who tells a small boy that he does not do tricks – he make
01 May 2014, The Tablet
Talking to Ourselves
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