César Aira
2) The divorce
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"The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, absorbed in conversation with a talented video artist, he sees a young man riding by on a bicycle get thoroughly drenched by a downpour of water--seemingly from rain caught the night before in the overhead awning. The video artist knows the cyclist, who knew a mad hermetic...
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"A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books." It helps him "know what my as-yet unwritten books would be about." Unfortunately, he is currently suffering writer's block. Soon, however, that proves to be the least of our hero's problems. There in the market, he...
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Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858), descendiente de una ilustre familia de grabadores de Augsburgo, es el más interesante de los artistas extranjeros que visitaron América Latina en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. En este libro electrizante, César Aira relata un episodio de su viaje a través de la pampa: un episodio que modificará por completo su vida, su cuerpo, su visión del mundo y su estética.
5) Birthday
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Birthday is among the very best of Aira—it will surprise readers new to his work, and will deeply satisfy his many fans
Before you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing—and then, just as suddenly you realize that you are fifty years old. Aira had anticipated his fiftieth—a time when he would not so much recall years past as look...