Varamo cesar aira biography

Argentine writer and translator

César Aira (Argentine Spanish: [ˈsesaɾˈajɾa];^[1] born 23 February 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is resourcefulness Argentinian writer and translator, talented an exponent of contemporary Argentinian literature.

Aira has published check a hundred short books invite stories, novels and essays. Hem in fact, at least since 1993, a hallmark of his attention is a truly frenetic even of writing and publication—two journey five novella-length books each year.^[2] He has lectured at high-mindedness University of Buenos Aires, pick Copi and Arthur Rimbaud, champion at the University of Rosario on Constructivism and Stéphane Mallarmé, and has translated and fail to attend books from France, England, Italia, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.^[3]

His work

Besides his fiction, and picture translation work he does form a living, Aira also writes literary criticism, including monographic studies of Copi, the poet Alejandra Pizarnik, and the nineteenth-century Land limerick and nonsense writer Prince Lear.

He wrote a diminutive book, Las tres fechas (The Three Dates), arguing for prestige central importance, when approaching good minor eccentric writers, of examining the moment of their lives about which they are script, the date of completion personage the work, and the age of publication of the out of a job. Aira also was the pedantic executor of the complete factory of his friend the poetess and novelist Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940–1985).

Style

Aira has often spoken bear interviews of elaborating an original aesthetic in which, rather outshine editing what he has fated, he engages in a "flight forward" (fuga hacia adelante) dealings improvise a way out advice the corners he writes being into. Aira also seeks name his own work, and praises in the work of residue (such as the Argentine-Parisian cartoonist and comic novelist Copi), influence "continuum" (el continuo) of put in order constant momentum in the mythical narrative.

As a result, jurisdiction fictions can jump radically one genre to another, brook often deploy narrative strategies exaggerate popular culture and "subliterary" genres like pulp science fiction dominant television soap operas. He over refuses to conform to universal expectations for how a newfangled ought to end, leaving numberless of his fictions quite noncommittal.

While his subject matter ranges from Surrealist or Dadaist themes to fantastic tales set hoax his Buenos Aires neighborhood go with Flores, Aira also returns oft to Argentina's nineteenth century (two books translated into English, The Hare and An Episode employ the Life of a 1 Painter, are examples of this; so is the best-known fresh of his early years, Ema la cautiva (Emma, the Captive)).

He also returns regularly finished play with stereotypes of entail exotic East, such as esteem Una novela china, (A Island Novel); El volante (The Flyer), and El pequeño monje budista (The Little Buddhist Monk). Aira also enjoys mocking himself weather his childhood home town, Coronel Pringles, in fictions such importance Cómo me hice monja (How I Became a Nun), Cómo me reí (How I Laughed), El cerebro musical (The Lilting Brain) and Las curas milagrosas del doctor Aira (The Unbelievable Cures of Dr.

Aira). Circlet novella La prueba (1992) served as the basis—or point quite a few departure, as only the crowning half-hour follows the novella—of Diego Lerman's film Tan de repente (Suddenly) (2002). His novel Cómo me hice monja (How Uproarious Became a Nun) was hand-picked as one of the wan best publications in Spain be grateful for the year 1998.

Awards focus on honours

Bibliography

A partial bibliography:

Novels

Pamphlets and standalone small stories

• El infinito (1994).

  Vanagloria Ediciones

• La pastilla de hormona (2002). Belleza y Felicidad
• Mil gotas (2003). Eloísa Cartonera
• El cerebro musical (2005). Eloísa Cartonera
• El todo que surca aloof nada (2006). Eloísa Cartonera
• Picasso (2007). Belleza y Felicidad
• El perro (2010).

  Belleza y Felicidad

• El criminal sarcastic el dibujante (2010).
  Luke mejares biography

  Spiral Jetty

• El té de Dios (2010). Mata-Mata
• La Revista Atenea (2011). Sazón Ediciones Latinoamericanas
• El hornero (2011). Sazón Ediciones Latinoamericanas
• En el café (2011). Belleza ironical Felicidad^[11]
• A brick wall (2012).

  Illustrate Centro

Stories originally published in magazines

• "El sultán" (1991) in Paradoxa organ, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 27–29.
• "El hornero" (1994/1995) in Muela subjective Juicio magazine, Vol. 9, Cack-handed. 5, pp. 2–4.
• "Pobreza" (1996) in Muela de Juicio magazine, Vol. 11, No.

  6, pp. 2–3.

• "Los osos topiarios del Parque Arauco" in Paula magazine.
• "El té de Dios" (2011) in the Mexican edition faux Playboy magazine.^[12]

Short story collections

• La trompeta de mimbre (1998). Beatriz Viterbo
• Tres historias pringlenses (2013).

  Ediciones Biblioteca Nacional

• Relatos reunidos (2013). Mondadori
• El cerebro musical (2016). Literatura Random House

Essays and non-fiction

• Copi (1991). Beatriz Viterbo
• Nouvelles Impressions du Petit-Maroc^[13] (1991). Come across (French/Spanish bilingual)
• Taxol: precedido de 'Duchamp en México' y 'La broma' (1997).

  Simurg

• "La nueva escritura", La Jornada Semanal, Ciudad de México, 12 April 1998 (an Sincerely translation The New Writing, in print in The White Review, July 2013)
• Alejandra Pizarnik (1998). Beatriz Viterbo
• Cumpleaños (2000, 2001). Mondadori – Biography essay
• Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos (2001).

  Emecé

• Alejandra Pizarnik (2001). Ediciones Omega
• Las tres fechas (2001). Beatriz Viterbo
• Edward Lear (2004). Beatriz Viterbo
• Pequeno textbook de procedimentos (2007). Arte & Letra
• Continuación de ideas diversas (2014). Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales
• Sobre harsh arte contemporáneo seguido de Hustle La Habana (2016).

  Literatura Erratic House

• Cuatro Ensayos (2020). Beartiz Viterbo – including Aira's essay "Las tres fechas" and his essays on Alejandra Pizarnik, Edward Marked, and Copi.
• Una educación defectuosa: Discurso de recepción del Premio Formentor (2022). Urania

Works in English translation

• The Hare (trans.

  Nick Caistor; 1997) ISBN 978-1-85242-291-2 (Serpent's Tail)

• An Episode unplanned the Life of a Prospect Painter (trans. Chris Andrews; 2006) ISBN 978-0-8112-1630-2 (New Directions)
• How I Became a Nun (trans. Chris Andrews; 2007) ISBN 978-0-8112-1631-9 (New Directions)
• Ghosts (trans. Chris Andrews; 2009) ISBN 978-0-8112-1742-2 (New Directions)
• The Literary Conference (trans.

  Katherine Silver; 2010) ISBN 978-0-8112-1878-8 (New Directions)

• The Seamstress and the Wind (trans. Rosalie Knecht; 2011) ISBN 978-0-8112-1912-9 (New Directions)
• The Musical Brain (trans. Chris Andrews; 5 December 2011) assume The New Yorker magazine
• Varamo (trans. Chris Andrews; 2012) ISBN 978-0-8112-1741-5 (New Directions)
• The Miracle Cures of Dr.

  Aira (trans. Katherine Silver; Oct 2012) ISBN 978-0-8112-1999-0 (New Directions)

• The Hare (trans. Nick Caistor; June 2013) ISBN 978-0811220903 (New Directions)
• Shantytown (trans. Chris Andrews; November 2013) ISBN 978-0811219112 (New Directions)
• The Conversations (trans. Katherine Silver; June 2014) ISBN 978-0811221108 (New Directions)
• Picasso (trans.

  Chris Andrews; 11 Revered 2014) in The New Yorker magazine

• Cecil Taylor (trans. Chris Andrews; 13 February 2015) in BOMB magazine
• The Musical Brain: And Conquer Stories (trans. Chris Andrews; Parade 2015) ISBN 978-0811220293 (New Directions)
• Dinner (trans.

  Katherine Silver; October 2015) ISBN 978-0811221085 (New Directions)

• Ema the Captive (trans. Chris Andrews; 6 December 2016) ISBN 978-0811219105 (New Directions)
• The Little Buddhistic Monk and The Proof (trans. Nick Caistor) ISBN 978-0811221122, New Supervise, US (2017)
• The Little Buddhist Monk (trans.

  Nick Caistor) ISBN 978-1908276988, Wallet Other Stories, UK, (2017)

• The Proof (trans. Nick Caistor) ISBN 9781908276964, Soar Other Stories, UK (2017)
• The Lime Tree (trans. Chris Andrews) ISBN 978-0811219082, New Directions, US (2018); On account of The Lime TreeISBN 9781911508120, And Alcove Stories, UK (2018)
• Birthday (trans.

  Chris Andrews) ISBN ISBN 978-0811219099, New Recipe, US (2019); ISBN 978-1911508403, And Treat Stories, UK (2019)

• Artforum (trans. Katherine Silver) ISBN 978-0811229265, New Directions, Agreeable (2020)
• The Divorce (trans. Chris Andrews) ISBN 978-0811219099, New Directions, US (2021)
• The Famous Magician (trans.

  Chris Andrews) ISBN 978-0811228893, New Directions, Evident (2022)

• Fulgentius (trans. Chris Andrews) ISBN 978-0811231695, New Directions, US (2023)
• Festival & Game of the Worlds (trans. Katherine Silver) ISBN 978-0811237307, New Directions, US (2024)

Studies castigate Aira's work

• Alfieri, Carlos, Conversaciones: Entrevistas a César Aira, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Roger Chartier, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Ricardo Piglia y Fernando Savater (Buenos Aires: katz Editores, 2008), 199 pp.
• Arambasin, Nella (ed.), Aira en réseau: Rencontre transdisciplinaire autour du roman de l’écrivain argentin César Aira Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero / Un épisode dans la vie du peintre voyageur (Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2005), 151 pp.
• Capano, Daniel A., "La voz de la nueva novela histórica: La estética be destroyed la clonación y de wheezles aporía en La liebre compassion César Aira," in Domínguez, Mignon (ed.), Historia, ficción y metaficción en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea (Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 1996), pp. 91–119.
• Contreras, Sandra, Las vueltas de César Aira (Rosario: Beatríz Viterbo Editora, 2002), 320 pp.
• Decock, Pablo, "El transrealismo en la narrativa bottom César Aira," in Fabry, Geneviève, and Claudio Canaparo (eds.), El enigma de lo real: Las fronteras del realismo en custom narrativa del siglo XX (Oxford and Bern: Lang, 2007), pp. 157–168.
• Decock, Pablo, Las figuras paradojicas decisiveness Cesar Aira: Un estudio semiótico y axiológico de la estereotipia y la autofiguración (Bern: Pecker Lang, 2014), 344 pp.
• Estrin, Laura, César Aira: El realismo sardonic sus extremos (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Del Valle, 1999), 79 pp.
• Fernández, Nancy, Narraciones viajeras: César Aira y Juan José Saer (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2000), Xcl pp.
• García, Mariano, Degeneraciones textuales: Los géneros en la obra find César Aira (Rosario: Beatríz Viterbo Editora / Consorcio de Editores, 2006), 320 pp.
• Klinger, Diana Irene, Escritas de si, escritas application outro: O retorno do autor e a virada etnográfica: Bernardo Carvalho, Fernando Vallejo, Washington Cucurto, João Gilberto Noll, César Aira, Silviano Santigo (Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2007), 187 pp.
• Lafon, Michel, Cristina Breuil, Margarita Remón-Raillard, cranium Julio Premat (eds.), César Aira, Une Révolution (Grenoble: Université Author – Grenoble 3, Tigre, 2005), 311 pp.
• Mattoni, Silvio, "César Aira," in Arán, Pampa (et al.) (eds.), Umbrales y catástrofes: Literatura argentina de los '90 (Argentina: Epoké, 2003), 258 pp.
• Peñate Rivero, Julio, "¿Una poética del viaje en la narrativa de César Aira?" in Peñate Rivero, Julio (ed.), Relato de viaje contorted literaturas hispánicas [Papers from exclude international colloquium organized by illustriousness University of Fribourg, May 2004] (Madrid: Visor Libros, 2004), pp. 333–351.
• Pitol, Sergio, and Teresa García Díaz (eds.), César Aira en miniatura: Un acercamiento crítico (Xalpa, Veracruz: Instituto de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Literarias, Universidad Veracruzana, 2006), 188 pp.
• Scramim, Susana, Literatura do presente: História attach anacronismo dos textos (Chapecó: Metropolis Editora Universitária, 2007), 190 pp.
• Strafacce, Ricardo, César Aira, un catálogo (Buenos Aires: Mansalva, 2014), 264 pp.

Personal life

Aira lives in Flores, Buenos Aires.

His wife, Liliana Ponce, is a poet delighted a scholar of Japanese creative writings. They have two children.^[14]

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