
Op Oloop
Juan Filloy(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 17. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-56478-434-6 (ISBN)
Description
Mr. Optimus Oloop is a Finnish statistician living in Buenos Aires.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-434-6 (9781564784346)
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Juan Filloy was an excellent swimmer, dedicated boxing referee, and talented caricaturist; he spoke seven languages and he practised as a judge in the small town of Rio Cuarto, 200 kilometres from Cordoba, where he spent nearly the whole of his life. He died in 2000 at the age of 106. A world champion palindromist, he made use of the entire dictionary in his books, coined new words, and used only seven letters in all the titles of his works. He received various distinctions during his lifetime and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University and has translated numerous works of fiction by Argentine, Mexican, Catalan, and Spanish writers. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.