Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill

A script for Artkino, Fogwill´s «last» novel, is one of his funniest works, though an extremely unfunny truth lurks behind the obvious jokes, behind the laughter. An irrelevant writer, also called Fogwill, writes his life’s work, a film script, for a future/past Soviet Hollywood, where Argentina and a good part of the world have united as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against the rest of the world: the capitalist countries with headquarters in New York. In this hypothetical Socialist Argentina Pravda is read, Russian tobacco is smoked and Russian cars are driven, but the betrayals are as they have always been: political in appearance, but very human in reality, that is, more connected to the human character than to the political standards through which they attempt to organize themselves: vanity, passion, jealousy, ambition.  
If in Help a él (Help Him) the real Fogwill rewrote Borges’s «The Aleph», here he seems to revise –that is, correct, amend or repair– novels such as Orwell’s 1984.