The novelist transforms the magazine into an ambiguous symbol of everything its reader might lack.
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César Aira’s Take on Contemporary Art Comes Up Short
Not every work tells a story; not every story told about a work enriches it.
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César Aira’s Memoir Responds to an Existentialist Crisis
Whatever might be truth or fiction in Birthday is used in service of the book’s main question: What has been the purpose of the author’s life?
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Flying Forward into the Zone
Varamo is only the sixth novel by the Argentinian writer César Aira to be made available in English, but the premise already sounds like an Aira-parody: one night in Panama in 1923, a government employee without a literary bone in his body composes a future masterpiece of Central American poetry and, as often happens, never writes another word again.