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»Duchamp in Mexiko« versammelt drei zentrale Essays César Airas, die ihn erstmals nicht nur als genialen Autor von Novellen und Romanen zeigen, sondern ihm die Möglichkeit geben, sein eigenständiges und stilistisch virtuoses Nachdenken über Kunst und Literatur zu entdecken. Ausgehend von Marcel Duchamp über de Chirico bis Lezama Lima entwickelt Aira in den Texten eine eigene Theorie der modernen Kunst und reicht dem Leser unter der Hand zudem ...

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En los últimos siglos de la Edad Media, en una pequeña ciudad de la costa catalana vivía un viejo monje con fama de santo que había logrado el reconocimiento y la devoción de los feligreses...In the last centuries of Middle Age, in a small town of the Catalan coast, there was an old monk with reputation of a saint that had achieved recognition and devotion from the people...JUNE 2015

Canto castrato nos conduce, en medio de un encendido clima de romanticismo, tras los pasos de un divo de la ópera dieciochesca, el Micchino. En 1738 las naciones de Europa se alzan en su escalada de absolutismo y frivolidad. La muerte de Luis XIV ha abierto un vacío que poco a poco llenarán las criaturas ambiguas del rococó. Ha llegado el momento de máximo esplendor de emperatrices y reyes galantes: Catalina, María Teresa, Federico el Grande, ...

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The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest, flexibility, and ability to make mistakes of human beings anywhere. As Nicholas Lemann put it in The New Yorker, "Krech is more than just a conventio...

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 tho...

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. Howe...

Johan Moritz Rugendas, a quien el mismo Humboldt admiraba como un maestro en el arte pictórico de la fisonomía de la naturaleza, fue el mejor de los pocos pintores viajeros que hubo en Occidente. De su segundo viaje a América resultaron miles de óleos, acuarelas y dibujos cuyo objeto fueron primordialmente las selvas y las montañas tropicales. Pero el objetivo secreto de su viaje fue Argentina: solo allí, pensaba, podría encontrar el reverso d...

In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress when she suddenly fears her son has been kidnapped and taken to Patagonia. She takes up chase in a taxi, and her husband takes off after her. Aira is a Man Booker International finalist, and is considered to be amongst the most important and influential writers in Latin America today.

An intriguing tale of a little Buddhist living in Korea who dreams of the western world. Aira's imagination shines through to combine tourism, surprise robotics and Korean temples. 'Surreal and intriguing... A drama that is as fun as it is mystifying' "The Guardian

Marcia is sixteen and unhappy. One day, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns and is confronted by punk girls Lenin and Mao. She's soon beguiled, but the two have little time for philosophical discussions of love: they need proof, and with their own savage logic the duo stage a hold-up in an unforgettable splatter-fest finale.

The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. The Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit  ("Wannafuck?" is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local super...

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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 G...

Encuadernación: rústica Colección: Literatura MondadoriEsta recopilación incluye tres novelas breves, esenciales para comprender el vertiginoso mundo literario del escritor argentino César Aira. Si en la primera, el asombroso texto autobiográfico que da título a la colección, se suceden los recuerdos y las experiencias infantiles de un niño convertido en monja, en La prueba topamos con dos chicas punk que una tarde se encuentran con una virgen...

En esta novela, las anécdotas se encadenan unas con otras formando un laberinto narrativo. Las aventuras del bandolero protagonista de una saga literaria que causa furor entre las presidiarias, la historia del crimen, huida y captura de una mujer que mató a su marido y que estuvo a punto de librarse de la perpetua, la existencia azarosa de un escultor que lo perdió todo y que sirvió de inspiración a una mujer en el peor momento de su vid...

César is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn, he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds a pirate's treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, César's bid for world domination comes first and so he attends a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to vict...