{"title":"Books by Mario Levrero","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781911508502","title":"Empty Words","description":"An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to keep a notebook of handwriting exercises, hoping that if he is able to improve his penmanship, his personal character will also improve. What begins as a mere physical exercise becomes involuntarily coloured by humorous reflections and tender anecdotes about living, writing, and the sense – and nonsense – of existence.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308921893237,"sku":"9781911508502","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911508502_0366e738-faff-4ef9-923f-15a852c9d6ce.jpg?v=1786028994"},{"product_id":"9781913505011","title":"The Luminous Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA writer attempts to complete the novel for which he has been awarded a big fat Guggenheim grant, though for a long time he succeeds mainly in procrastinating – getting an electrician to rewire his living room so he can reposition his computer, buying an armchair, or rather, two: ‘In one, you can’t possibly read: it’s uncomfortable and your back ends up crooked and sore. In the other, you can’t possibly relax: the hard backrest means you have to sit up straight and pay attention, which makes it ideal if you want to read.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInsomniacs, romantics and anyone who’s ever written (or failed to write) will fall in love with this compelling masterpiece told by a true original, with all his infuriating faults, charming wit and intriguing musings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309195080053,"sku":"9781913505011","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913505011_31c729c6-5be8-44cd-a1aa-e7a0275689a0.jpg?v=1786030348"},{"product_id":"thinking-about-gladys-machine","title":"The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003eLevrero’s writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher-like grammatical maze of ‘The Boarding House’ to the Lewis Carroll-esque ‘The Basement’, this book explores uncanny domestic spaces, using the structures of the stories themselves as tools for re-inventing narrative possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Stories that play with space, an absurd space when looked at with logic. And that is exactly the challenge that Levrero sets the reader: to read from their imagination, from that place where anything is possible, where fears, phobias and obsessions have free rein.’ Tati Jurado\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492500119925,"sku":"9781916751064","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781916751064.jpg?v=1786529413"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mario-levrero.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}