Сесар Айра

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century Europe...

Durante la Edad Media, en una poblacion de la costa catalana, vive un anciano monje que ha consagrado los ultimos cuarenta anos de su vida al ejercicio escrupuloso de su vocacion, percibiendo el mundo siempre desde la oracion y la distancia. Tras obrar unos cuantos milagros, nuestro monje se gana el reconocimiento y la devocion de todos los feligreses del mundo cristiano. Pero al intuir que se ace...

Un libro especial dentro de la prolifica obra del autor de Ema la cautiva. Un comentario banal mueve al autor, cumplidos los cincuenta anos, a reflexionar sobre sus supuestas certezas y sobre la incertidumbre que esta por venir. Una obra breve y exacta que habla sobre la relacion entre vida y escritura.

Es el ultimo dia del ano en un edificio en construccion en Buenos Aires. En la manana los futuros propietarios visitan el lugar, acompanados por el arquitecto y los decoradores mientras los albaniles trabajan. Alrededor de todos ellos flotan desnudos los fantasmas. El genio narrativo de Cesar Aira nos lleva a otra historia y solo al terminar de leer Los fantasmas caera todo en su sitio y se acrece...

En una remota provincia china, un campesino sutil se extravia en un hechizo de amor. Como casi todos los amores, este es imposible.Pero Lu Hsin, ingenioso y paciente, decide crear una posibilidad a partir de la nada. La tarea le lleva casi toda la vida. Esta fabula erotica, intemporal y eterna aunque ineludiblemente china, sucede sobre el fondo agitado de veinte anos cruciales en la historia del I...

One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother visit a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors the daughter of what was her name? Miganne, who lived in front of Cabanillas s office Which Cabanillas? The one married to Artola s daughter? They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the Cemetery...

A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream. "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the sam...

At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprises Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires’s shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone — including two innocent teenage girls — to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a b...

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“On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply television images to all the floors. On the edge of the dish, a sharp metallic edge on which no bird would have dared to perch, three completely naked men were sitting, with their faces turned up to the m...