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Dozens of characters populate these storylines, including Nula, the wine salesman, ladies' man, and part-time philosopher; Lucía, the woman he's lusted after for years; and Tomatis, a journalist whom Saer fans have encountered many times before.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in Saer's trademark style, this lyrically gorgeous book--which touches on politics, artistic beliefs, illicit love affairs, and everything else that makes up life--ends with one of the greatest lines in all of literature: \"With the rain came the fall, and with the fall, the time of the wine.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan José Saer\u003c\/b\u003e (1937-2005), born in Santa Fé, Argentina, was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. In 1968, he moved to Paris and taught literature at the University of Rennes. 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