Three novels by Cesar Aira combines three short novels by the cult Argentinian writer in one beautifully designed box set. Irreverent, playful, provocative and prolific, Argentinian author Cesar Aira has written over seventy books and has been acknowledged internationally to be one of the most origi[...]

Teos sisältää kaksi César Airan pienoisromaania. Maisemamaalaria pidetään Airan häikäisevimpänä romaanina. Kirjan päähenkilö, Johann Moritz Rugendas, oli todellisuudessakin saksalainen vuonna 1802 Augsburgissa syntynyt arvostettu taidemaalari, joka Alexander von Humboldtin kehotuksesta [...]

A fictional account based on the life and work of nineteenth-century German painter Johan Moritz Rugendas traces his visit to Argentina for the purpose of achieving in art a "physiognomic totality" of his scientific vision, a quest during which he pays an enormous price for his success. Original.[...]

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 woul[...]

The Musical Brain & Other Stories consists of twenty stories about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people from the writer The New York Review of Books calls the novelist who can t be stopped. The author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely 96 pages each, with just nine of them so far published[...]

Offers a collection of three novels. In Ghosts, tells about a group of immigrant workers and their families who are squatting on the haunted construction site. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter tells the story of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, and in The Literary Conference, tell[...]

Daily conversations in outdoor cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera s goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, [...]