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introduction of the first volume. These notebooks allow readers a privileged insight into the creative processes of Saer. As critics point out, the books of Juan José Saer may be taken as a single "oeuvre", set in his "La Zona", a fluvial region around the
Argentinian city of Santa Fé, populated by characters who are developed and become referential from novel to novel.
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Saer's novels frequently thematize the situation of the self-exiled writer through the figures of two twin brothers, one of whom remained in
Argentina during the dictatorship, while the other, like Saer himself, moved to Paris; several of his novels trace their separate and intertwining fates, along
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