César Aira





César Aira

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February 23, 1949 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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César Aira (born on February 23, 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine writer and translator, considered by many as one of the leading exponents of Argentine contemporary literature, in spite of his limited public recognition.

He has published over fifty books of stories, novels and essays. Indeed, at least since 1993 a hallmark of his work is an almost frenetic level of writing and publication –two to four novella-length books each year.[1]

Aira has often spoken in interviews of elaborating an avant-garde aesthetic in which, rather than editing what he has written, he engages in a “flight forward” (fuga hacia adelante) to improvise a way out of the corners he writes himself into. Aira also seeks in his own work, an...more


Average rating: 3.77 · 1,853 ratings · 375 reviews · 77 distinct works
Ghosts
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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How I Became a Nun
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The Literary Conference
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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The Seamstress and the Wind
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Varamo
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Cómo me hice monja - La cos...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1994
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La Prueba
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1992
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Ema, la Cautiva
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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La Villa
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.”
César Aira, Varamo

“I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing.”
César Aira

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