#cesar aira

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

For the Feast of All Saints :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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“He had developed a superstitious fear of the instant, that tiny hole through which all the time available to human beings must pass.”

— César Aira, Varamo [exhaled-spirals]

[sivavakkiyar]

For anyone interested in César Aira, one of his best stories, ‘Cecil Taylor’, is available online. It’s one of my favorites for more than the obvious reasons but also Bolaño called it ‘one of the five best stories I can remember’.

If you want some Taylor to listen to with it try any of his early three albums: Jazz Advance, Looking Ahead!, or The World Of Cecil Taylor

[stargir1z]

ghosts, cesar aira

[yeryuzugokyuzu]

“Derken kendi kendimden sıkılmaya başladım. Aynaya bakınca beni temsil eden tek bir unsur bile görmüyordum. Görünmezdim.”

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Cesar Aira

[judgingbooksbycovers]

3 Novels

By César Aira.

Design by Jon Gray.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

y'all this book is dragging me to hell and back, WHAT A RELATABLE WRITER MOOD!!!

[cristianemagalhaes]

Atos de Caridade – Cesar Aira

Um pequeno grande livro!!! Como os conceitos se embaralham! Como o querer ser bom se mistura com o ser bom consigo mesmo!

“... a miséria é mais atroz do que supusera. ,,, Não é preciso contraste algum para ele tomar plena consciência do que significa viver sem um banheiro, sem móveis, sem espaço, dormindo em esteiras infestadas de insetos, com telhados de palha dos quais escorre uma umidade com cheiro de decomposição.... Apenas metade da desgraça é visível: a outra metade, intrincado nós de causas e efeitos, é a ignorância. O vício inocente, animal, a falta de perspectivas, a dissolução dos horizontes numa sobrevivência cotidiana atordoada, a morte da esperança ...”

[eva248]

Lecturas de octubre. Quinta semana

Las fieras / Clara Usón. Editorial Seix Barral, 2024 Idoia López Riaño, conocida como la Tigresa, fue una de las más sanguinarias terroristas de ETA y la que más atrajo la atención de los medios, tanto por sus atentados como por su belleza. Su historia, repleta de claroscuros, transcurre en paralelo a la de Miren, una adolescente que busca su lugar en el Euskadi de los años de plomo y que se…

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Hirosi Tachibana kyoto-based artist :: Angel, Ship

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“But the Australians, what do the Australians do? How do they structure their landscape? For a start they postulate a primal builder, whose work they presume only to interpret: the mythical animal who was active in the “dreamtime,” that is, a primal era, beyond verification, as the name indicates. A time of sleep. The visible landscape is an effect of causes that are to be found in the dreamtime. For example, the snake that dragged itself over this plain creating these undulations, etc., etc. 

These.. curious Aborigines make sure their eyes are closed while events take place, which allows them to see places as records of events. But what they see is a kind of dream, and they wake into a reverie, since the real story (the snake, not the hills) happened while they were asleep.” 

― César Aira, Ghosts

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[sivavakkiyar]

César Aira, How I Became A Nun

[erick-saqui]

A la mañana siguiente me desperté deprimido, aun antes de saber que estaba deprimido. Después recordé que era domingo, el día más difícil de sobrellevar para mí. La depresión del domingo es un clásico, y no podía no serlo en alguien sin trabajo, sin familia, sin perspectivas.

—Cesar Aira, La cena.

[borderepisteme]

“…la lectura de una novela debe ser algo más, o menos, que lectura. Debe hacer pasar el ejercicio de la lectura a otro plano, secundario, automatizado, para que tome cuerpo, así sea cuerpo espectral, el sueño que representa la novela.”

Cesar Aira, Evasión

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023: THE FAMOUS MAGICIAN by César Aira. I needed something Small and Lighter-Hearted after the most recent stuff (starting with EARTHLINGS, honestly), so naturally I reach for a 43-page ~Book~ about a writer with writer’s block and the book-selling magician who wants to make him a deal. This came as a freebie in my book subscription box earlier this year, and it’s definitely not something I would’ve picked up if left to my own devices, but!: So far I’m enjoying it!! Always fun to read things in translation, too.