The Conversations

Name: The Conversations
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Price: 14.18 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Cesar Aira

Translated by: Katherine Silver

Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap operas goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, distress, and incipient madness. The two mens uneasiness soon becomes a nightmare as the TV adventure advances with a real-life plot involving a mutant strain of killer algae to take over the world! The Conversations, a reality within a fiction within a parallel reality, is hilariously funny and surprisingly touching. See more

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Weight: 105g
Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
Publication Date: 05 May 2015
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811221108

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. Katherine Silver's award-winning translations include works by María Sonia Cristoff Daniel Sada César Aira Julio Cortázar Juan Carlos Onetti and Julio Ramón Ribeyro. The author of Echo Under Story she does volunteer interpreting for asylum seekers.