Scars

Scars Book Description He was so shrunken that he looked like a dwarf. The yellow paving stones were covered with blood stains. The man was not moving. I realized that a person who hit the glass like this, then flew in the air and fell from the third floor to the ground, did not break anything at the moment of hitting the glass and the pavement. Because the man was already shattered into pieces before he threw away what was left of himself, that hollow shell. He pulled out everything inside and then threw the empty shell out the window. A young journalist at the beginning of his career, a lawyer who quit his job and gambled away all his wealth, a bohemian judge filled with disgust for the world, and a "union thief" worker who killed his wife... In Scars, the story of these four people who enter and exit the circle of a murder is told through their own eyes. It is told in four chapters, just like their fragmented lives. Despite a corpse that sometimes causes them to come together, what these people have in common is their terrible indifference towards the corpse; Because what is actually depicted is the disintegration and injury of the members of a society that was the victim of a murder, rather than a murder. Scars, the masterpiece of Juan José Saer, who became one of the greatest writers of the century by choosing a completely different path at a time when Latin American novelists were fascinated by the "magical realism" movement, with Gökhan Aksay's translation from the Spanish original... "Saer is Argentina's writer from Borges." "He is the best writer he has ever produced." William Rowe (From the Promotional Bulletin)