Blending fiction, personal essay, and art history, this debut is a "completely original book" (Mariana Enríquez), "reminiscent of John Berger's Ways of Seeing" (Claire-Louise Bennett), about an Argentinian woman obsessed with art.
Blending fiction, personal essay, and art history, this debut is a "completely original book" (Mariana Enríquez), "reminiscent of John Berger's Ways of Seeing" (Claire-Louise Bennett), about an Argentinian woman obsessed with art.
María Gainza was born in Buenos Aires, where she still resides. She has worked as a correspondent for The New York Times in Argentina, as well as for ARTnews. She has also been a contributor to Artforum, The Buenos Aires Review, and Radar, the cultural supplement from Argentine newspaper Página/12. She is coeditor of the collection Los Sentidos (The Senses) on Argentinean art, and in 2011 she published Textos elegidos (Selected Texts ), a collection of her notes and essays on contemporary art. Optic Nerve is her first work of fiction and her first book to be translated into English. Thomas Bunstead is a writer and translator based in East Sussex, England. He has translated some of the leading Spanish–language writers working today, including Eduardo Halfon, Yuri Herrera, Agustín Fernández Mallo, and Enrique Vila–Matas, and his own writing has appeared in publications such as Kill Author, The White Review, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is an editor at the translation journal In Other Words.
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