Books by César Aira
Assuming the avant-garde in any art or creative manifestation is a weight subjected to the disturbing gravity of the sword of Damocles. César Aira lives with that role as a forerunner of Spanish literature, perhaps more alone than ever since Roberto Bolaño left us his ...
Every self-respecting writer must take a look at this disruptive work, not only in his career, but in the generality of literature. And César Aira was not going to be less because the avant-garde is standard. And it's not bad at all ...
In Spain they were called capons, with that more traditional touch that turns the foreign into something more mundane. Precisely in the case of the castrati, this Spanish term, now in disuse, probably more accurately defined the no less sinister image of the castrated singing children for ...