Of the works published in our language this year, these ones may not be the most accomplished or the best-selling ones, but perhaps they are the most significant.

They have been widely read, commented, discussed, and talked about. They have generated community consensus and debate. This selection attempts to be a representation the Ibero-American space – although its author, despite his many travels and his widespread social network, lives (for good or for evil) in Barcelona.

You may also be interested in: A new essay by one of Piglia's best female readers – she dedicated to him a whole chapter of her impressive Fuera de campo. Literatura y arte argentinos después de Duchamp (Out of Focus: Argentine Art and Literature after Duchamp) – Graciela Speranza: Cronografías. Arte y ficciones en un tiempo sin tiempo (Chronographs. Art and Fictions in a Time Without Time), published by Anagram. Likewise, Historia universal del Don Juan. Creación y vigencia de un mito moderno (Universal History of Don Juan. Creation and Endurance of a Modern Myth), a celebrated study by the also Argentinian Edgardo Dobry; as well as another interesting essay on how we human beings have tried to understand and represent time and memory: El teatro de la memoria. De Giullio Camilo a Aby Warburg (The Theater of Memory. From Giullio Camilo to Aby Warburg), by Corrado Bologna, published by Siruela.

Read more here:  https://www.nytimes.com/es/2017/12/10/diez-libros-de-no-ficcion-que-han-marcado-2017/