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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter - César Aira (Paperback): Cesar Aira An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter - César Aira (Paperback)
Cesar Aira
R180 R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Save R17 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants and animals… But then something goes appallingly wrong.

This is one of Aira’s great works, filled with his baffling ability to veer between grandeur and absurdity. Each page fails to provide clues as to what lies in wait for the reader on the next.

The Seamstress and the Wind (Paperback): Cesar Aira The Seamstress and the Wind (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Rosalie Knecht 1
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Lime Tree (Paperback): Cesar Aira The Lime Tree (Paperback)
Cesar Aira
R327 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R32 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by Cesar Aira - suddenly recalls the Sunday mornings of his childhood, when his father would take him to gather the lime-flower blossoms from which he made tea. Beginning with his father, handsome and `black' and working-class, and his strikingly grotesque mother, the narrator quickly leaps from anecdote to anecdote, bringing to life his father's dream of upward mobility, the dashing of their family's hopes when the Peronist party fell from power, the single room they all shared, and his mother's litany of political rants, which were used - like the lime-flower tea - to keep his father calm. Aira's charming fictional memoir is a colourful mosaic of a small-town neighbourhood, a playful portrait of the artist as a child and an invitation to visit the source of Aira's own extraordinary imagination.

The Little Buddhist Monk (Paperback): Cesar Aira The Little Buddhist Monk (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Nick Caistor 1
R327 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R32 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf-sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and Jacqueline Bloodymary he offers his services as their guide, in the hope they will take him, a penniless monk, to Europe. He whisks them off on a tour of the temples. Among the many twists and turns, our stunned tourists encounter a suicidal horse and discover that a person can also be a robot. Though our monk appears to them as the very spirit of tourism, nothing is natural in this tour de force of Aira's twisted imagination.

The Proof (Paperback): Cesar Aira The Proof (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Nick Caistor
R327 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R32 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she's walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns round and is confronted by two punk girls Lenin and Mao. Soon, she's beguiled by them and the possibilities they open up. But the two have little time for a philosophical discussion of love: they need proof, and with their own savage logic the duo, calling themselves the Commando of Love, hold up a supermarket as the novel climaxes in an unforgettable splatter-fest finale.

The Divorce (Paperback): Cesar Aira The Divorce (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Chris Andrews; Introduction by Patti Smith
R270 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R26 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation A recently divorced man trying to enjoy himself in one of the trendier districts of Buenos Aires finds himself at the centre a series of strange coincidences. These blips in causality are at first easily rationalised, but soon escalate from the merely implausible to the impossible to the cataclysmic. More, each accident of fate, piling one atop the other, drags a new, rambling tale in its wake, until the very ground beneath the man's feet seems likely to buckle beneath the weight of so many shaggy dogs. And yet, with master storyteller Cesar Aira holding their leashes, what better vacation from reality could any reader-or divorce-desire?

The Famous Magician (Hardcover): Cesar Aira The Famous Magician (Hardcover)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Chris Andrews
R458 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R53 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books." Unfortunately, he is suffering from writer's block. However, that proves to be the least of our hero's problems. In the market, he fails to avoid the insufferable boor Ovando-"a complete loser" but a "man supremely full of himself: Conceit was never less justified." And yet, is Ovando a master magician? Can he turn sugar cubes into pure gold? And can our protagonist decline the offer Ovando proposes granting him absolute power if the writer never in his life reads another book? And is his publisher also a great magician? And the writer's wife? Only Cesar Aira could have cooked up this witch's potion (and only he would plop in phantom Mont Blanc pens as well as fearsome crocodiles from the banks of the Nile)-a brew bubbling over with the question: where does literature end and magic begin?

Ghosts (Paperback): Cesar Aira Ghosts (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Chris Andrews
R354 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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 midday sun; no one saw them, of course." - from Ghosts Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (Paperback): Cesar Aira An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Chris Andrews; Preface by Roberto Bolano
R302 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 European painters to venture into Latin America. However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind Rugendas' trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would come only at an immense pricean almost monstrously exorbitant price that would ultimately challenge his drawing and force him to create a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and irreversibly and explosively marks him for life.

The Conversations (Paperback): Cesar Aira The Conversations (Paperback)
Cesar Aira; Translated by Katherine Silver
Sold By Aristata Bookshop - Fulfilled by Loot
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

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, distress, and incipient madness. The two men's uneasiness soon becomes a nightmare as the TV adventure advances with a real-life plot - involving a mutant strain of killer algae - to take over the world! The Conversations, a reality within a fiction within a parallel reality, is hilariously funny and surprisingly touching.

Osvaldo Lamborghini - El Sexo Que H (Hardcover): Cesar Aira Osvaldo Lamborghini - El Sexo Que H (Hardcover)
Cesar Aira
R1,130 Discovery Miles 11 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Gombrowicz, Este Hombre Me Causa Problemas (English, Spanish, Paperback): Juan-Carlos Gomez, Cesar Aira Gombrowicz, Este Hombre Me Causa Problemas (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Juan-Carlos Gomez, Cesar Aira
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Parmenides (Spanish Edition) (Spanish, Paperback): Cesar Aira Parmenides (Spanish Edition) (Spanish, Paperback)
Cesar Aira
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Como ME Hice Monja (Spanish, Paperback): Cesar Aira Como ME Hice Monja (Spanish, Paperback)
Cesar Aira
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero / An Episode in the Life of the Traveling Painter (Spanish, Paperback): Cesar Aira Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero / An Episode in the Life of the Traveling Painter (Spanish, Paperback)
Cesar Aira
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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