Still largely unknown in our part of the world, Idea Vilariño’s work ranks among the most significant of her century in Uruguay. At the heart of this body of work, Non is a unique book, written, composed, and reworked over nearly half a century by its author. Just 58 poems offer a radical, desolate, and deeply moving exploration of an ever-present loneliness.

Reading Vilariño is like looking a form of life’s nakedness straight in the eye, engaging in a dialogue with silent death, until one feels an unrelenting emotion closing in. Non is a brief and intense book, a kind of dark viaticum for navigating existence, whose incandescence is fully captured in Charlotte Pangrazzi’s translation.

Limited edition of 22 numbered copies on Arches paper, each containing an original, signed work by Claire Chesnier.
Available on Editions Unes's website and at the Pages book fair from November 27 to 29 in Paris.

NO (first edition)

Author: Idea Vilariño

Bilingual edition: Spanish-French

Translation: Charlotte Pangrazzi

Cover illustration: Claire Chesnier

Artist: Claire Chesnier

Format: 16x22 cm

Year: 2026