Written in 1964 by Argentinian writer Di Benedetto, The Silentary, or the “maker of silence”, is set in a nameless Latin American city in the early 1950s.  The nameless narrator is a young man who aspires to be a novelist, and silence is the one thing he cannot control at all.  For no matter where he goes, noise is always there.  He shares an apartment with his mother, and has a friend from work (a nameless bureaucratic agency), and a girlfriend, Nina, who soon moves […]