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Five

by C Aira

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Cinco relatos de César Aira

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Cinco relatos de César Aira

Esta colección reúne cinco obras de César Aira: *Margarita: A Memory*, *The Dream*, *Musical Brushstrokes*, *Princess Springtime* y *The Hormone Pill*, seleccionadas de un conjunto más amplio de novelas y relatos inéditos en inglés. Sus figuras incluyen monjas cibernéticas, una princesa que trabaja como traductora y un vendedor de periódicos, junto con General Winter y su ayudante, el Little Christmas Tree. El conjunto cruza elementos de fantasía y situaciones cotidianas, y juega con las convenciones de género. La variedad de títulos y personajes ofrece una muestra de distintas facetas de la obra narrativa de Aira.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Lectores que ya conocen la obra de César Aira y quieren explorar relatos menos difundidos en inglés.
  • Quienes buscan ficción argentina con personajes insólitos y cruces de fantasía y vida cotidiana.

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Convenciones de géneroFantasía y vida cotidianaIdentidad y traducción

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Book overview

Five, selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by "the Duchamp of Latin America" (Natasha Wimmer), brings together--each an astonishing work--Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical Brushstrokes, Princess Springtime, and The Hormone Pill. Following a cast of dreamlike characters including cyber nuns, a young princess making ends meet as a hack translator, a newspaper vendor, and General Winter and his sadistic sidekick, the Little Christmas Tree, Five shows the many facets of Aira's master mind as he turns expectations inside-out and gleefully explodes genre conventions.

Five is a must-have for Aira's legion of devoted fans around the world and a fine introduction to the as-yet uninitiated. A satisfyingly hefty installment from this "exquisite miniaturist" (WSJ) and writer whose "cubist eye sees from every angle" (NYT); because "once you start reading Aira, you don't want tostop" (Roberto Bola

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