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César Aira The Musical Brain (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Musical Brain : and Other Stories
- Publication Name
- The Musical Brain
- Title
- The Musical Brain
- Subtitle
- And Other Stories
- Translator
- Chris Andrews
- Contributor
- Chris Andrews (Translated by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 081122029X
- EAN
- 9780811220293
- ISBN
- 9780811220293
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 05/05/2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Item Length
- 7.3in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), General
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, César Aira-the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long-The Musical Brain & Other Stories comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with his fuga hacia adelante or "flight forward" into the unknown, gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out-of-context plot lines, as well as thoughtful and passionate takes on everyday reality. The title story, first published in the New Yorker, is the creme de la creme of this exhilarating collection.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
081122029x
ISBN-13
9780811220293
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038656563
Product Key Features
Book Title
Musical Brain : and Other Stories
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.3in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq7798.1.I7a2 2014
Reviews
Argentine author Csar Aira is an exquisite miniaturist who toys with avant-garde techniques. His work has drawn comparisons to Vladimir Nabokov and Italo Calvino for its gleeful literary gamesmanship and stories-within-stories., His novels are eccentric clones of reality, where the lights are brighter, the picture is sharper, and everything happens at the speed of thought., Genius. César Aira is a deconstructed Kafka; a compact comprehensible Roberto Bolaño obsessed with the frightening nonsense of civilization., César Aira's novels are the narrative equivalent of the Exquisite Corpse, that surrealist parlor game in which players add to drawings or stories without knowledge of previous or subsequent additions. Wildly heterogeneous elements are thrown together, and the final result never fails to surprise and amuse. Aira is wacky enough to play the game by himself, but the reader isn't left out either., Genius. Csar Aira is a deconstructed Kafka; a compact comprehensible Roberto Bolao obsessed with the frightening nonsense of civilization., What a gift: to look forward to reading a new Aira novel from New Directions every year for the rest of one's life., 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., A distinctive hallucinatory style, which blends together reality and fiction, the waking world and the dream world, "Aira's cubist eye sees from every angle. The stories in "The Musical Brain" exhibit the continuing narration of Aira's improvisational mind. His characters -- whether comic-strip ruffians, apes, subatomic particles or a version of his boyhood self -- enter a shifting and tilting landscape of events that unhinge our temporal existence and render it phantasmagorical yet seemingly everyday in the unfolding. His matter-of-fact approach, accepting even the most outlandish episodes, suspends disbelief and encourages one's own sense of displacement, of being released from the commonplace. Hail César!", "Aira's cubist eye sees from every angle. The stories in "The Musical Brain" exhibit the continuing narration of Aira's improvisational mind. His characters -- whether comic-strip ruffians, apes, subatomic particles or a version of his boyhood self -- enter a shifting and tilting landscape of events that unhinge our temporal existence and render it phantasmagorical yet seemingly everyday in the unfolding. His matter-of-fact approach, accepting even the most outlandish episodes, suspends disbelief and encourages one's own sense of displacement, of being released from the commonplace. Hail Csar!", Exhilarating. Csar Aira is the Duchamp of Latin American literature. Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in spanish today and should not be missed., Outlandish B-movie fantasies are all part of the game. His best-known works are nonsensically hysterical. To love César Aira you must have a taste for the absurd, a tolerance for the obscurely philosophical, and a willingness to laugh out loud against your better judgment., Argentine author César Aira is an exquisite miniaturist who toys with avant-garde techniques. His work has drawn comparisons to Vladimir Nabokov and Italo Calvino for its gleeful literary gamesmanship and stories-within-stories., Csar Aira's novels are the narrative equivalent of the Exquisite Corpse, that surrealist parlor game in which players add to drawings or stories without knowledge of previous or subsequent additions. Wildly heterogeneous elements are thrown together, and the final result never fails to surprise and amuse. Aira is wacky enough to play the game by himself, but the reader isn't left out either., Aira delivers one surreal unraveling of reality after another that proceeds paradox by paradox into psychic realms, Aira conjures a languorous, surreal atmosphere of baking heat and quietly menacing shadows that puts one in mind of a painting by de Chirico., Outlandish B-movie fantasies are all part of the game. His best-known works are nonsensically hysterical. To love Csar Aira you must have a taste for the absurd, a tolerance for the obscurely philosophical, and a willingness to laugh out loud against your better judgment., Exhilarating. César Aira is the Duchamp of Latin American literature. Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in spanish today and should not be missed., "Aira's cubist eye sees from every angle. The stories in "The Musical Brain" exhibit the continuing narration of Aira's improvisational mind. His characters -- whether comic-strip ruffians, apes, subatomic particles or a version of his boyhood self -- enter a shifting and tilting landscape of events that unhinge our temporal existence and render it phantasmagorical yet seemingly everyday in the unfolding. His matter-of-fact approach, accepting even the most outlandish episodes, suspends disbelief and encourages one's own sense of displacement, of being released from the commonplace. Hail César!", Aira's novels parody narrative form, destroy normal cause and effect, and contain bold conceptual dialogues., The novelist who can't be stopped. Aira's novels are dense, unpredictable confections delivered in plain, stealthily lyrical style capable of accommodating his fondness for mixing metaphysics, realism, pulp fiction, and Dadaist incongruities., "Aira's cubist eye sees from every angle. The stories in "The Musical Brain" exhibit the continuing narration of Aira's improvisational mind. His characters -- whether comic-strip ruffians, apes, subatomic particles or a version of his boyhood self -- enter a shifting and tilting landscape of events that unhinge our temporal existence and render it phantasmagorical yet seemingly everyday in the unfolding. His matter-of-fact approach, accepting even the most outlandish episodes, suspends disbelief and encourages one's own sense of displacement, of being released from the commonplace. Hail Csar!", Aira seems fascinated by the idea of storytelling as invention, invention as improvisation, and improvisation as transgression, as getting away with something., Aira's works are like slim cabinets of wonder, full of unlikely juxtapositions. His unpredictability is masterful.
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-021279
Dewey Decimal
863/.64
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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