CÉSAR AIRA was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has
lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He taught at the University of
Buenos Aires (about Copi and Rimbaud) and at the University of
Rosario (Constructivism and Mallarmé), and has translated and
edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico,
and Venezuela. Perhaps one of the most prolific writers in
Argentina, and certainly one of the most talked about in Latin
America, Aira has published more than 100 books to date in
Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, which
have been translated for France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil,
Portugal, Greece, Austria, Romania, Russia, and the United States.
One novel, La prueba, has been made into a feature film, and How I
Became a Nun was chosen as one of Argentina’s ten best books.
Besides essays and novels Aira writes regularly for the Spanish
newspaper El País. In addition to winning the 2021 Formentor Prize,
he has received a Guggenheim scholarship, and was shortlisted for
the Rómulo Gallegos prize and the Booker International Prize.
The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan
Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work. Patti
Smith is a poet, performer, visual artist, and author of M Train
and the National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids. She has
twelve albums, has had numerous gallery shows, and continues to
give concerts of her music and poetry. Her books include Early
Work, The Coral Sea, Witt, Babel, Auguries of Innocence,
Woolgathering, Land 250, Trois, and many others. In 2022, Smith was
awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation in
recognition of her outstanding lifetime achievement. She lives in
New York.
"[A] fleeting glance at the deeply strange multitudes living in
Aira’s mind palace...marked by not only his characteristically
expressive language, but also his willingness to go just about
anywhere with a narrative."
*Kirkus*
"This prismatic, exquisitely rendered work is from a master at the
height of his powers."
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
"Sui generis is really the only way to accurately describe César
Aira. He’s by turns a realist, a magical realist and a surrealist —
and therefore not really any of them. Anything can happen in an
Aira novel, and almost everything does."
*Tyler Malone - Los Angeles Times*
"We come full circle, to the 'delicate machine' that put everything
in motion. In someone else’s hands, this might feel like a trick,
but in Aira’s it is magical."
*Sheila Glaser - New York Times Book Review*
"The Divorce is a masterful demonstration of focused imagination.
Aira chronicles overlapping coincidences, layering memory with
temporality and injecting magic into the mundane to create a
kaleidoscopic tale of serendipitous meetings that rumbles like an
avalanche down a mountain, gathering speed and power as the novel
progresses. With lightness and verve, Aira twirls the macro with
the micro to create a singular novel whose story turns and turns
again until it comes full circle, like “that ‘little steel fairy,’
the bicycle, from whose spinning stories are born."
*Alex Crayon - World Literature Today*
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