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In Ghosts, a group of immigrant workers and their families are squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. One teenage girl's interest in the ghosts on the site becomes so intense that her mother realizes her life is in the balance. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter tells of a point in the life of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, when he visits Latin America to paint its spectacular landscapes. And in The Literary Conference, a young translator called César Aira travels to a literary conference, intent on world domination . . .
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Kísértetek


César Aira argentin író második magyar nyelven megjelent kisregénye merőben szakít az "Epizód egy vándorfestő életéből" 19. századi világával, hiszen történetének színtere nem a latin-amerikai pusztaság vagy festői vadon, hanem egy félkész Buenos Aires-i luxus apartmanház, ahová ... Folytatás ›› a leendő lakók szilveszter napjának délelőttjén háztűznézőbe érkeznek. De a kisregény középpontjába nem az őgyelgő tulajdonosok kerülnek, hanem egy szegény chilei bevándorló család, amelynek feladata az építkezési terület felügyelése a tényleges átadás időpontjáig. A népes Vinas-család élete -érzelmei, örömei, családi viszályai- az óév utolsó napján szinte nagyító alá kerül, így nemcsak a szereplők hétköznapjaiba, de gondolataiba is belelátunk. A félkész házban rajtuk kívül azonban kísértetek is laknak. Ezek a természetfeletti jelenségek egymás között mulatnak, átnézve a födi teremtményeken, mígnem a kamaszodó mostohalánnyal, Patrival nem találkoznak. Aira regénye a mágikus realizmus eszközeivel tárja fel a chilei bevándorlók és argentin őslakosok - vagyis a munkásosztály és az újgazdag réteg- között húzódó szakadékot, miközben az épület rideg betonfalai egyre légiesebbé és áttetszőbbé válnak. Aira regénye többféle életfilozófiával átszőtt, felkavaró történet, melyben a kísértetek, akár valódiak, akár képzeletbeliek, érzéki jelenlétükkel felforgatják a serdülő lány, Patri világát, miközben a falakról lógva jelzik az állónak tűnő szellem-időt, míg be nem üt a várva várt éjfél órája... A(z) Kísértetek Könyv szerzője César Aira.
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Three Novels by Cesar Aira


Three novels by Cesar Aira combines three short novels by the cult Argentinian writer in one beautifully designed box set. Irreverent, playful, provocative and prolific, Argentinian author Cesar Aira has written over seventy books and has been acknowledged internationally to be one of the most original and provocative authors in world literature. Collected here are three of his novellas, to be published for the very first time in the UK. In Ghosts, an immigrant worker's family are squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their families see the ghosts which float around the place, but one teenage girl's interest in them becomes so intense that her mother realizes her life is in the balance. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter tells of a point in the life of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, when he visits Latin America to paint its spectacular landscapes. There, a strange episode interrupts his trip and irreversibly marks him for life. And in The Literary Conference, a young translator called Cesar Aira travels to a literary conference, intent on world domination...Praise for Cesar Aira: "Once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop". (Roberto Bolano). Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and W. G. Sebald' Los Angeles Times Cesar Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. One of the most prolific writers in Argentina, Aira has published more than seventy books.
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Three Novels


In Ghosts, a group of immigrant workers and their families are squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. One teenage girl's interest in the ghosts on the site becomes so intense that her mother realizes her life is in the balance. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter tells of a point in the life of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, when he visits Latin America to paint its spectacular landscapes. And in The Literary Conference, a young translator called César Aira travels to a literary conference, intent on world domination . . .
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The Famous Magician


A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination? A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books." Unfortunately, he is suffering from writer's block. However, that proves to be the least of our hero's problems. In the market, he fails to avoid the insufferable boor Ovando?"a complete loser" but a "man supremely full of himself: Conceit was never less justified." And yet, is Ovando a master magician? Can he turn sugar cubes into pure gold? And can our protagonist decline the offer Ovando proposes granting him absolute power if the writer never in his life reads another book? And is his publisher also a great magician? And the writer's wife? Only César Aira could have cooked up this witch's potion (and only he would plop in phantom Mont Blanc pens as well as fearsome crocodiles from the banks of the Nile)?a brew bubbling over with the question: where does literature end and magic begin?
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