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I byn El Pensamiento
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Häftad, 2025
189 kr
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Med minnet som nyckfullt raster återvänder César Aira till sin barndom -- närmare bestämt till det sista året han tillbringade i den lilla byn El Pensamiento i provinsen Buenos Aires. Där, under tillvarons sömniga yta, börjar språkets och fantasins världar att veckla ut sig för den sjuårige …
Parmenides
Av César Aira
Häftad, 2025
189 kr
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I en grekisk koloni på 400-talet f.Kr. får den unge, fattige poeten Perinola ett storslaget uppdrag: den inflytelserike statsmannen och filosofen Parmenides vill ha hjälp att skriva en bok som ska rymma all hans kunskap och livsvisdom. Perinola väntar ivrigt på att få börja skriva, men för varje …
Middagen
Av César Aira
Häftad, 2024
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
186 kr
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En ungkarl i sextioårsåldern är tillsammans med sin mamma hembjuden på middag hos en förmögen och rätt skrytsam bekant i den argentinska staden Coronel Pringles. När han kommit hem igen slår han på den lokala tevekanel där han får se en chockerad programledare rapportera om att de döda börjat stiga …
Samtalen
Av César Aira
Häftad, 2021
209 kr
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En man ägnar natten åt att rekonstruera dagens samtal med en vän. De diskuterade en Hollywoodfilm de bara sett brottstycken av på teve, men hade helt olika uppfattning om den guldiga Rolexklocka som skymtades på den fattiga ukrainska fåraherde som filmen verkade handla om. Deras konflikt kring …
Margarita (ett minne)
Av César Aira
Häftad, 2021
221 kr
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Det är 1957, sommaren innan berättaren ska flytta till Buenos Aires och börja läsa på universitetet. Men först en vistelse på landet med familjen, där han djupt försjunken i böckernas värld till en början knappt tar någon notis om att Margarita och hennes beryktade far anlänt. Fadern som haft ett …
Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof
Av César Aira
Häftad, 2017
180 kr
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The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. The Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit …
Artforum
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Häftad, 2020
165 kr
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Artforum is certainly one of César 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 …
Middagen
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E-bok
129 kr
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En ungkarl i sextioårsåldern är tillsammans med sin mamma hembjuden på middag hos en förmögen och rätt skrytsam bekant i den argentinska staden Coronel Pringles. När han kommit hem igen slår han på den lokala tevekanel där han får se en chockerad programledare rapportera om att de döda börjat stiga …
Sömmerskan och vinden
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E-bok
129 kr
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Författaren Cesar Aira sitter på ett café i Paris och skriver på en roman. Den ska handla om en sömmerska och en vind, så mycket vet han, och den här gången tänker han använda sig av alla friheter, även de mest osannolika. Så börjar en berättelse ta form: om en sömmerska i den argentinska staden …
Five
Av César Aira
Häftad, 2026
227 kr
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Five, selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by “the Duchamp of Latin America” (Natasha Wimmer), brings together—each an astonishing work—Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical Brushstrokes, Princess Springtime, and The Hormone Pill. Following a cast of dreamlike characters …
Ghosts
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Häftad, 2009
180 kr
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"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 …
How I Became a Nun
Av César Aira
Häftad, 2007
199 kr
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The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest, …
Proof
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Häftad, 2017
152 kr
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Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she's walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns round and is confronted by two punk girls Lenin and Mao. Soon, she's beguiled by them and the possibilities they open up. But the two have little time …
Seamstress and the Wind
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Häftad, 2016
149 kr
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In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chase in a taxi. Her husband finds out and takes off after her – to the end of the world, to the place where monsters are born, and …
Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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Häftad, 2025
87 kr
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIt is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants and animals… But then something goes …
Margarita (ett minne)
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E-bok
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
79 kr
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César Aira (född 1949 i Coronel Pringles, Argentina) är en unik figur i litteraturvärlden. Sedan 70-talet har han publicerat över 120 romaner i en genre som är helt hans egen. Korta, ofta runt 100 sidor långa romaner om udda personer som stångas med lika udda idéer. Han är experimentell, ironisk …
Divorce
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Häftad, 2021
137 kr
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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 …
Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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E-bok, 2025
62 kr
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIt is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants and animals… But then something goes …
Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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Häftad, 2006
235 kr
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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 …
Linden Tree
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Häftad, 2018
165 kr
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A delightful fictional memoir about César Aira's small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Aires) as César Aira, could be the author himself. Beginning with his parents—an enigmatic handsome black father who gathered linden flowers for his …
Birthday
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Häftad, 2019
165 kr
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Before you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing—and then, just as suddenly you realize that you are fifty years old. Aira had anticipated his fiftieth—a time when he would not so much recall years past as look forward to …
Ema the Captive
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Häftad, 2016
180 kr
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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 …
Dinner
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Häftad, 2015
165 kr
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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 …
Conversations
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Häftad, 2014
165 kr
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Daily conversations in outdoor cafés 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, …
Famous Magician
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Inbunden, 2022
208 kr
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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, …
Fulgentius
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Häftad, 2023
180 kr
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By profession I am a soldier, a general in the glorious Roman army. As a playwright, I think of myself as a sublime amateur.In Cesar Aira’s new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general—“Rome’s most illustrious and experienced”—is sent to pacify the remote province of …
Festival & Game of the Worlds
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Häftad, 2024
181 kr
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In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he’s brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled: Why? Half-blind and terminally cranky, she does nothing but complain, despite insisting on attending …
Little Buddhist Monk
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Häftad, 2017
152 kr
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In Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf-sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and Jacqueline Bloodymary he offers his services as their guide, in the hope they will take him, a penniless …
Lime Tree
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Häftad, 2017
152 kr
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Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by Cesar Aira - suddenly recalls the Sunday mornings of his childhood, when his father would take him to …
On Contemporary Art
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Häftad, 2018
116 kr
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Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art , a speech by the renowned novelist César 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 …
