Cesar Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. Wildly popular in Latin America, he has published more than seventy books of short fictions and essays. Rosalie Knecht won a Fulbright to work closely with Cesar Aira on the translation of The Seamstress and the Wind.
"Aira's voice is clear, his characters are palpable, and his ideas -elucidations on literary theory, existential ruminations, and thought experiments - are evocative and infectious." -- Cristobal McKinney - ZYZZYVA "His brutal humor and off-kilter sense of beauty make his stories slip down like spiked cream puffs." -- Natasha Wimmer - The New York Times "Once you start reading Aira, you don't want to stop." -- Roberto Bolano "Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and W. G. Sebald, those great late modernists for whom fiction was a theater of ideas." -- Mark Doty - The Los Angeles Times
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