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A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of micro-fiction.
A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, César Aira–the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long–The Musical Brain & Other Stories comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with his fuga hacia adelante or "flight forward" into the unknown, gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out-of-context plot lines, as well as thoughtful and passionate takes on everyday reality. The title story, first published in the New Yorker, is the creme de la creme of this exhilarating collection."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Nominated for a Neustadt award and the Man Booker International Prize, César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. He has published at least one hundred books and recently created a limited edition, “Valise,” for the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
The poet Chris Andrews teaches at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, where he is a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. He has translated books by Roberto Bolano and César Aira for New Directions. He has won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for his poetry and the Valle-Inclan Prize for his translations.
“Once you start reading Aira, you don't want to stop.”
- Roberto Bolano
“Aira’s cubist eye sees from every angle. The stories in “The Musical Brain” exhibit the continuing narration of Aira’s improvisational mind. His characters ― whether comic-strip ruffians, apes, subatomic particles or a version of his boyhood self ― enter a shifting and tilting landscape of events that unhinge our temporal existence and render it phantasmagorical yet seemingly everyday in the unfolding. His matter-of-fact approach, accepting even the most outlandish episodes, suspends disbelief and encourages one’s own sense of displacement, of being released from the commonplace. Hail César!”
- Patti Smith, The New York Times Book Review
“Astonishing–turns Don Quixote into Picasso.”
- Harper's
“Everything in Aira has that Mad Scientist feel to it. ”
- The Millions
“Exhilarating. César Aira is the Duchamp of Latin American literature. Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in spanish today and should not be missed.”
- Natasha Wimmer, The New York Times
“Wildly Funny.”
- Paris Review
“An Aesop in Breton's clothing. ”
- Thomas Hachard, Los Angeles Review of Books
“César Aira is Argentina's greatest living author.”
- Marcela Valdes, The Nation
“Cerebral, witty, fanciful and idiosyncratic.”
- Aura Estrada, Boston Review
“Aira oversteps the bounds of realism, forcing the world to live up to his imagination.”
- Benjamin Lytal, The New York Sun
- Roberto Bolano
“Aira’s cubist eye sees from every angle. The stories in “The Musical Brain” exhibit the continuing narration of Aira’s improvisational mind. His characters ― whether comic-strip ruffians, apes, subatomic particles or a version of his boyhood self ― enter a shifting and tilting landscape of events that unhinge our temporal existence and render it phantasmagorical yet seemingly everyday in the unfolding. His matter-of-fact approach, accepting even the most outlandish episodes, suspends disbelief and encourages one’s own sense of displacement, of being released from the commonplace. Hail César!”
- Patti Smith, The New York Times Book Review
“Astonishing–turns Don Quixote into Picasso.”
- Harper's
“Everything in Aira has that Mad Scientist feel to it. ”
- The Millions
“Exhilarating. César Aira is the Duchamp of Latin American literature. Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in spanish today and should not be missed.”
- Natasha Wimmer, The New York Times
“Wildly Funny.”
- Paris Review
“An Aesop in Breton's clothing. ”
- Thomas Hachard, Los Angeles Review of Books
“César Aira is Argentina's greatest living author.”
- Marcela Valdes, The Nation
“Cerebral, witty, fanciful and idiosyncratic.”
- Aura Estrada, Boston Review
“Aira oversteps the bounds of realism, forcing the world to live up to his imagination.”
- Benjamin Lytal, The New York Sun
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