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The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof

English

By (author): Cesar Aira

Translated by: Nick Caistor

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 supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. These two Aira works are as different as night and day. Nevertheless, sex, identity, and modern day economics figure deeply in both of these fast-paced, edgy fictions. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 161g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811221122

About Cesar Aira

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 Argentinas 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.   Nick Caistor is a translator editor and author. He has written a biography of Octavio Paz and has translated the works of José Saramago Paulo Coelho and Julián Ríos among others.

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