Three Novels: César Aira (Penguin Essentials, 82) - Softcover

Aíra Cesar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241984505 ISBN 13: 9780241984505

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2018

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Críticas:

Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in Spanish today and should not be missed (The New York Times)

Aira has written over seventy books. They are mostly novels, mostly slim, and mostly astoundingly good. He reminds me of Philip K. Dick, of Honore de Balzac, of Machado de Assis, and of Soren Kierkegaard... all of which is simply to say that he is without compare (Rivka Galchen The New Yorker)

Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and W. G. Sebald (Mark Doty Los Angeles Times)

The author who nowadays is perhaps the most original shocking, the most exciting and subversive Spanish narrative writer: Cesar Aira (Ignacio Echeverri)

He is an improviser, his work a performance on the page. But experimental, improvisational, performative and dream-like as Aira's many marvellous books are, they also reveal him to be no less of a traditionalist, responding to the most ancient custom of storytelling as a way of passing the hours of the night (Judges’ citation, The Man Booker International Prize 2015)

Cesar Aira is writing a gigantic, headlong, acrobatic fresco of modern life entirely made up of novelettes, novellas, novellitos... In other words, he is a great literary trickster, and also one of the most charming (Adam Thirlwell)

Aira's stories seem like shards from an ever expanding interconnecting universe. He populates the racing void with multitudinous visions, like Indian paintings of gods vomiting gods. He executes digression with muscular lucidity (Patti Smith The New York Times)

César Aira's body of work is a perfect machine for invention-he writes without necessity or any apparent forebears, always as if for the first time (Maria Moreno BOMB Magazine)

If there's currently a writer who defies all classification that writer is César Aira. Once you've read Aira, you don't want to stop. Aira is an eccentric, but he's also one of the three or four best Spanish-language writers alive today (Roberto Bolaño)

Aira's works are like slim cabinets of wonder, full of unlikely juxtapositions. His unpredictability is masterful (Rivka Galchen Harper's)

Reseña del editor:

Three novels by Cesar Aira combines three short novels by the cult Argentinian writer in one beautifully designed box set.

Irreverent, playful, provocative and prolific, Argentinian author Cesar Aira has written over seventy books and has been acknowledged internationally to be one of the most original and provocative authors in world literature. Collected here are three of his novellas, to be published for the very first time in the UK.

In Ghosts, an immigrant worker's family are squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their families see the ghosts which float around the place, but one teenage girl's interest in them becomes so intense that her mother realizes her life is in the balance. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter tells of a point in the life of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, when he visits Latin America to paint its spectacular landscapes. There, a strange episode interrupts his trip and irreversibly marks him for life. And in The Literary Conference, a young translator called Cesar Aira travels to a literary conference, intent on world domination . . .

Praise for Cesar Aira:

'Once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop' Roberto Bolaño

'Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and W. G. Sebald' Los Angeles Times

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0241984505
• ISBN 13: 9780241984505
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256