My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in his first short story collection, Zambra gives us eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers—brilliant portraits of life in Chile before and after Pinochet/5(21). Alejandro Zambra’s “My Documents”. In his nostalgic yet critical gaze, the introduction of home computers in those years becomes a symbol for larger reconfigurations of solitude and companionship. · Alejandro Zambra’s My Documents begins with a memory of a computer in an office. A father grandly shows off the machine to his five-year-old son. The boy feigns interest before going off to play next to the secretary, who sits working at an electric bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are 11 stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers. Intimate, mysterious, and uncanny, these stories reveal a mind that is as undeniably singular as it is universal. "My Documents" by Alejandro Zambra (McSweeney's) By Ha D.H. Le, Crimson Staff Writer. Chilean novelist Alejandro Zambra hardly needs further proof that he is adept as a miniaturist, one of. Book Review: 'My Documents' By Alejandro Zamba Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra's new story collection shows off his exacting eye, comic timing and powers of description; critic Juan Vidal says the.
“My Documents” is the Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra’s first collection of short stories and at the same time his longest book to date — at odd pages, it’s a veritable tome next. My Documents is divided into four parts with little discernible thematic structure. The first section consists of the titular story, a loose semi-autobiographical account of the narrator’s relationship to computers. The second section is mostly told in the first person, although this pattern is broken by another computer story, “Memories of A Personal Computer,” which is told in the third person. Alejandro Zambra’s “My Documents”. In his nostalgic yet critical gaze, the introduction of home computers in those years becomes a symbol for larger reconfigurations of solitude and companionship.
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