Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill

"Memoria Romana y otros relatos inéditos" includes eleven texts by Fogwill dated from the seventies, eighties, and two thousands. Ten of them were rescued from among his belongings, personal papers, and correspondence, and are part of the Fogwill Archive. The other, titled "Un cambio de orgánico," was stolen from the author by one of the editors of this book.

Those dated from the seventies, before "Mis muertos punk," his first collection of short stories, show a young Fogwill experimenting with the short story genre, which would establish him as one of the best Argentine writers of the 20th century. "Memoria Romana" is a novella, interrupted but not unfinished, written during the Falklands War; it takes the form of a diary and is contemporary with "Los pichiciegos." In the texts dated from the two thousands, we see a more mature and confident Fogwill.

Some more autobiographical, others more delirious, always sharp, sometimes provocative, in all of them shine the power of language and imagination to weave stories, voices, perspectives, and phrasings that readers recall when they read the word Fogwill.