The Dove Keeper

Gerardo Mario Goloboff

1984

David and Nicolás raised a dove for me. They had her for about a month in the count’s house, trying to become fond of her because she was from the messenger race, and they wanted me to use her to send them letters. In that way you play a little with us when you don’t see us, they said, and at the same time you will learn to write “correspondence.”

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Gerardo Mario Goloboff

b. 1939

Gerardo Mario Goloboff is an Argentine novelist who taught literary theory and Latin American literature at the universities of Toulouse and Paris-Nanterre while in exile for twenty years. Trained as a lawyer, he founded the literary journal Nuevos Aires and has written a collection of poetry, works of criticism, and several novels, many of which address the issues of exile, Jewish identity, and justice.

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