The Seamstress and the Wind - Softcover

Aira, César

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811219127 ISBN 13: 9780811219129

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2011

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Book by Aira Csar

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Críticas:

His brutal humor and off-kilter sense of beauty make his stories slip down like spiked cream puffs.--Natasha Wimmer

Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and W. G. Sebald, those great late modernists for whom fiction was a theater of ideas.--Mark Doty

A first reaction to this virtuosic confection is to delight in its cascade of images and the sheer craziness of a roller-coaster sequence of events that all seem so plausible. César Aira, an Argentine writer of fiction and literary criticism, is the obvious heir to Jorge Luis Borges. Along with a daring sense of fun, Aira has a playful imagination and the ability to spin a yarn as intricate as a spider's web.--Eileen Battersby

Aira's voice is clear, his characters are palpable, and his ideas --elucidations on literary theory, existential ruminations, and thought experiments -- are evocative and infectious.--Cristóbal McKinney

Once you start reading Aira, you don't want to stop.--Roberto Bolaño

Reseña del editor:

The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny novel. Aseamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacherfears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnappedand driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a local taxito follow the semi in hot pursuit. When her husband finds out what’s happened,he takes off after wife and child. They race not only to the end of the world, butto adventures in desire — where the wild Southern wind falls in love with theseamstress, and a monster child takes up with the truck driver. Interspersedare Aira’s musings about memory and childhood, and his hometown of CoronelPringles, with a compelling view of the hard lot of this working-class town,situated not far from Buenos Aires.

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0811219127
• ISBN 13: 9780811219129
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132