Few Argentinian authors narrate in the interstice of speculative fiction and essay, between story and aesthetics. Luis Sagasti is a ferocious reader and demonstrates his sophisticated ear without resorting to solemnity or shouting, adept at finding the threads that secretly bind John Cage, the Beatles, Picasso, Ariana Harwicz, and César Aira. Cybertlön is a lucid essay about the state of contemporary art and the emergence of the cyberflâneur: a landlubber who surfs the web and reflects on the wreckage of his experience. But as a boy, Sagasti learned to travel much earlier, like so many of his generation, by browsing the massive and unpretentious I Know Everything encyclopedia from Larousse, a compendium of the world in 12 volumes, with no clear logic or order. From those first readings and his democratic and unbiased attention to the world, Sagasti builds his own Aleph.