by Martín Kohan · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020859226
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«Dix-sept secondes hors du ring» is the novel by Martín Kohan, published by Seuil in paperback (252 pages, in French).
In 1923, Argentine boxer Luis Ángel Firpo knocks down Jack Dempsey, but the referee does not count the seconds and Dempsey returns to win. In 1973, in Trelew, a journalist relives that fight and another evokes the premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 1; a hanged man in a hotel intertwines both stories.
Translation from Spanish (Argentina) by Gabriel Iaculli. Seuil's Cadre vert collection.
Readers of contemporary fiction interested in the intersection of sport, culture and journalism.
Martín Kohan is an Argentine academic, essayist and novelist. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires. He teaches literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Patagonia. He has published more than a dozen books in various genres - essays, short stories and novels. His best-known novel is Ciencias morales which won the Premio Herralde and was turned into a film called La mirada invisible by the director Diego Lerman. His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Hebrew. Two of his novels are available in English: School for Patriots and Seconds Out. Both were translated by Nick Caistor under the Serpent's Tail imprint.
