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[...]

Este volumen re ne diez de las mejores novelas del gran autor argentino, C sar Aira, con selecci n y prefacio de Juan Pablo Villalobos. Hace tiempo descubrimos que la gran novela de C sar Aira se estaba escribiendo con la acumulaci n de sus decenas de novelitas, que alcanzaron la centena en 2018. Lo[...]

In Ghosts, a group of immigrant workers and their families are squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. One teenage girl's interest in the ghosts on the site becomes so intense that her mother realizes her life is in the balance. An Episode in the Life of a Landsc[...]

Clarke, a nineteenth-century English naturalist, roams the pampas in search of that most elusive and rare animal: the Legibrerian hare, whose defining quality seems to be its ability to fly. The local Indians, pointing skyward, report recent sightings of the hare but then ask Clarke to help them sea[...]

Aaveet kuvaa chileläisen siirtotyöläisperheen uudenvuodenviettoa Buenos Airesin keskikesän kuumuudessa. Perhe asuu väliaikaisesti rakennustyömaalla, vielä keskeneräisessä loistokerrostalossa.Rakennustyöläisten, heidän vaimojensa ja lapsiensa lisäksi työmaalla majailee huoleton joukko a[...]