Aira, César
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Fulgentius
Aira creates a verisimilar scenario despite its unlikelihood that’s not quite as rambling as his other works. Readers familiar with his style will feel at home with the philosophical digressions that form the nucleus of the text, but the ending nevertheless disappoints.
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The Linden Tree
A good introduction to Aira for those unfamiliar with him, as noted translator Andrews skillfully conveys the lively prose and subtle humor of this 2003 novel into English.
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The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof
Readers of magic realism will appreciate Aira's reliance on inventive absurdities and his theme of the quest for identity (the characters may not be what they seem) in these two very disparate tales.
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Ema the Captive
An enthralling portrait of a time, a place, and one resilient woman that a wide range of readers will enjoy; refreshingly, Aira never writes the same book twice.
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Dinner
All these memory gaps, preposterous reports, and conflicting interpretations of the same event compel the reflective reader to ponder the mind-boggling array of gradations between what is real and what is not. Sophisticated readers will love.
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Conversations
The prolific and prodigiously talented Aira (The Hare) can make much with a little, as exemplified by this slim and effortlessly entertaining book...
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The Conversations
An incongruous cinematic scenario sets off a quirky debate about the nature of reality in this latest work by a prolific author of novellas...
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Varamo
This delectable novella by prolific Argentine author Aira constantly pulls the reader's leg, heightening the absurdity in a playful, desultory style reminiscent of magic realism. At about the novel's midpoint, the author directly intervenes by discussing his theory of narratology, the fruit of which he claims is in the reader's hand. For those who like writing in the vein of García Márquez and other masters of 20th-century Latin American literature.
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