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Cesar Aira (New Directions)
A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?
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Cesar Aira
Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art , a speech by the renowned novelist Cesar Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging…
Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 years in the future
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A divorce leads a man to Buenos Aires. In a trendy cafe he witnesses a minor accident involving Enrique, the owner of his guest house; this accident reunites Enrique with…
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Estevolumen reune diez de las mejores novelas del gran autor argentino, Cesar Aira, con seleccion yprefacio de Juan Pablo Villalobos. Hace tiempodescubrimos que la gran novela de…
Offers a collection of three novels. In Ghosts, tells about a group of immigrant workers and their families who are squatting on the haunted construction site. An Episode in the…
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La nueva novela del genio literario argentino es, de nuevo, una insolita invitacion a participar en un juego extraordinario made in Aira, a viajar por su mente caleidoscopica, siempre impredecible…
Canto castrato nos conduce, en medio de un encendido clima de romanticismo, tras los pasos de un divo de la opera dieciochesca, el Micchino.
En 1738 las naciones de Europa…
Cesar Aira, maestro indiscutible de las letras de nuestro idioma, define su ficcion como ensayos disfrazados de novelas . En este volumen, sin embargo, su esplendida faceta de ensayista cobra…
En las calles del barrio Flores de Buenos Aires una serie de personajes en situaciones extremas intenta sobrevivir al derrumbe de un pais y de sus terribles consecuencias. La crisis…
Una vuelta de tuerca a la novela de romanos protagonizada por un voluble general de la legion que cree haber revolucionado el teatro con la escritura de una tragedia autobiografica.
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Una pequena maquina de fabricar belleza, una manera feliz de describir la a veces invisible luz argentina.Johan Moritz Rugendas, a quien el mismo Humboldt admiraba como un maestro en el…
Haciendo gala de una finisima ironia, Aira nos hace reflexionar en Parmenides acerca de cuestiones como el porque del deseo de escribir o cual es el pago justo a dicho…
El extrano caso del doctor Aira, un medico descreido que tiene el don de obrar milagros, aunque no soporta hacerlos.Las curas milagrosas del Doctor Aira incluye en un solo volumen…
Un talento personalisimo, un arte poderoso y chocante, embargado siempre por un contagioso, obsesivo, irresistible sentimiento de felicidad. Ignacio Echevarria, El Pais
Esta es la historia de Rosa (?o Iris?)…
Tras recibir el Premio Formentor, regresa Cesar Aira con una novela impredecible en tres partes, o tres novelas insolitas en una que vuelven a dinamitar las expectativas del realismo.
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Premio Formentor 2021Leer a Cesar Aira es siempre una experiencia sorprendente.Arturo Garcia Ramos, ABC
Resultado de un exhaustivo y vasto rastreo en hemerotecas y colecciones privadas a cargo…
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En esta especie de fabula, el autor reflexiona sobre la mecanica de los deseos, sobre los caprichos y la burla del destino. Tambien se nos habla de…
New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world.
When a Mapuche chief suddenly goes missing, a British naturalist is asked to find him in the vast Argentine pampas
A delightful fictional account of the small town Cesar Aira grew up in-not so long ago
Birthday is among the very best of Aira-it will surprise readers new to his work, and will deeply satisfy his many fans
Ema The Captive, Cesar Aira’s second novel, is perhaps closest in style to his popular An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and The Hare
At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprises
A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of micro-fiction.
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A cerebral and wildly funny story revolving around the incongruity of a gold Rolex watch spotted on a lowly goatherd’s wrist
Two completely different stories by the inimitable Cesar Aira
One man’s obsession with Artforum magazine takes us on a hilarious journey to the ultimate meaning of the very creation of art
The most unsettling and stunning of Aira’s short novels published by New Directions.
A good story and first-rate social science. -New York Times Book Review. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice…
Aira holds a fun-house mirror up to the genre of historical fiction in this novel about an aging Roman general on what may be his last campaign into the provinces.
Was it a nightmare-the result of a bad case of indigestion-or did something truly scary happen after dinner in the Argentine town of Coronel Pringles?
Reflecting on the passing of time, Cesar Aira’s fascinating vision of life and literature.
Cesar Aira,Chris Andrews
One day in 1923, a middle-aged public servant is paid his salary in counterfeit notes; by the next morning, after a series of impossible complications which lead to a triumphant…
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Aira’s latest concerns a reluctant but powerful doctor who finally decides to use his healing powers to help a hopeless patient.
Nancy Fernandez
Nancy Fernandez se desempena como investigadora independiente en CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas) y como docente e investigadora en la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata.
With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate…
An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man’s life that…
Mbaye Djibril
Reflexionar sobre la obra de Aira supone no solo intentar domar una escritura rebelde, sino tambien sumarse a un reto metodologico. Su aparicion en las letras argentinas se produce en…
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Pablo Decock
Cesar Aira es uno de los autores mas importantes e influyentes de la literatura argentina contemporanea. En su obra prolifica la construccion del sentido ha sido desde el principio una…
