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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by AIRA CESAR
$19.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Arg ...Show more
Artforum by Cesar Aira; Katherine Silver (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Artforum is certainly one of C sar Aira's most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collect Artforum magazine, this is not about art so much as it is about passionate obsession. At first we follow our hapless collector from mag ...Show more
Dinner by Cesar Aira
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off ...Show more
Ema the Captive by Cesar Aira
$25.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (deprivations and rapes prevail along the way), yet the re ...Show more
Ghosts by Cesar Aira
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply television images to all the floors. On the edge of the dish, a sharp metallic edge on which no bird would h ...Show more
Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof by Aira, Cesar, Caistor, Nick
$26.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira
$16.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist C sar Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Aira's dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under question--from repr ...Show more
The Conversations by Cesar Aira
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Daily conversations in outdoor cafes 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 opera's goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, dist ...Show more
The Divorce by Cesar Aira; Chris Andrews (Translator); Patti Smith (Foreword by)
$25.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small daughter. He travels to Buenos Aires and there, one afternoon, he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, a ...Show more
The Hare by Cesar Aira
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Clarke, a nineteenth-century English naturalist, roams the pampas in search of that most elusive and rare animal: the Legibrerian hare, whose defining quality seems to be its ability to fly. The local Indians, pointing skyward, report recent sightings of the hare but then ask Clarke to help them search ...Show more