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César Aira (Argentine Spanish: [ˈsesaɾ ˈajɾa];[1] born 23 February 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentinian writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentinian literature. Aira has published over a hundred short books of stories, novels and essays. In fact, at least since 1993 a hallmark of his work is a truly frenetic level of writing and publication—two to five novella-length books each year.[2] He has lectured at the University of Buenos Aires, on Copi and Arthur Rimbaud, and at the University of Rosario on Constructivism and Stéphane Mallarmé, and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.[3]

César Aira
Born (1949-02-23) 23 February 1949 (age 73)
Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • essayist

His work


Besides his fiction, and the translation work he does for a living, Aira also writes literary criticism, including monographic studies of Copi, the poet Alejandra Pizarnik, and the nineteenth-century British limerick and nonsense writer Edward Lear. He wrote a short book, Las tres fechas (The Three Dates), arguing for the central importance, when approaching some minor eccentric writers, of examining the moment of their lives about which they are writing, the date of completion of the work, and the date of publication of the work. Aira also was the literary executor of the complete works of his friend the poet and novelist Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940–1985).


Style


Aira has often spoken in interviews of elaborating an avant-garde aesthetic in which, rather than editing what he has written, he engages in a "flight forward" (fuga hacia adelante) to improvise a way out of the corners he writes himself into. Aira also seeks in his own work, and praises in the work of others (such as the Argentine-Parisian cartoonist and comic novelist Copi), the "continuum" (el continuo) of a constant momentum in the fictional narrative. As a result, his fictions can jump radically from one genre to another, and often deploy narrative strategies from popular culture and "subliterary" genres like pulp science fiction and television soap operas. He frequently refuses to conform to generic expectations for how a novel ought to end, leaving many of his fictions quite open-ended.

While his subject matter ranges from Surrealist or Dadaist quasi-nonsense to fantastic tales set in his Buenos Aires neighborhood of Flores, Aira also returns frequently to Argentina's nineteenth century (two books translated into English, The Hare and An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, are examples of this; so is the best-known novel of his early years, Ema la cautiva (Emma, the Captive)). He also returns regularly to play with stereotypes of an exotic East, such as in Una novela china, (A Chinese Novel); El volante (The Flyer), and El pequeño monje budista (The Little Buddhist Monk). Aira also enjoys mocking himself and his childhood home town, Coronel Pringles, in fictions such as Cómo me hice monja (How I Became a Nun), Cómo me reí (How I Laughed), El cerebro musical (The Musical Brain) and Las curas milagrosas del doctor Aira (The Miraculous Cures of Dr. Aira). His novella La prueba (1992) served as the basis—or point of departure, as only the first half-hour follows the novella—of Diego Lerman's film Tan de repente (Suddenly) (2002). His novel Cómo me hice monja (How I Became a Nun) was selected as one of the ten best publications in Spain in the year 1998.


Awards and honours



Bibliography


A partial bibliography:


Novels



Pamphlets and standalone short stories



Stories originally published in magazines



Short story collections



Essays and non-fiction



Works in English translation



Studies of Aira's work



References


  1. Approximately pronounced like "SAY-sar EYE-ra".
  2. Santos, Lidia (2006). Tropical kitsch: mass media in Latin American art and literature. Markus Wiener Publishers. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-55876-353-1.
  3. http://ndbooks.com/author/cesar-aira Archived 17 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "César Aira". Konex Foundation. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  5. "Prix Roger Caillois 2014". Maison de l'Amérique Latine. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  6. "Neustadt Laureates 2014 – Mia Couto". The Neustadt Prizes. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  7. "The Man Booker International Prize 2015". The Man Booker Prize. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  8. "America Awards". Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  9. "Manuel Rojas Award". Fundación Manuel Rojas. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  10. The Mondadori collection Las curas milagrosas del Doctor Aira (2007) reprints Las curas milagrosas del Dr. Aira (1998) with Fragmentos de un diario en los Alpes (2002) and El tilo (2003).
  11. Esposito, Scott (9 February 2015). "Eight Questions for Chris Andrews on The Musical Brain". Conversational Reading. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  12. Aira, César (2013). "Provenencia de algunos de los relatos". Relatos reunidos. Literatura Random House. ISBN 9788439727330.
  13. The title is spelled Nouvelles Impressions du Petit-Maroc on the publisher's page Archived 16 June 2013 at archive.today: it refers to the Petit-Maroc ("Little Morocco") district in the city of Saint-Nazaire, France.



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César Aira (* 23. Februar 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Provinz Buenos Aires) ist ein argentinischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer. Sein Markenzeichen sind Kurzromane um die hundert Seiten, von denen er seit etwa 1992 drei bis vier pro Jahr in lateinamerikanischen und spanischen Verlagen veröffentlicht.
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[ru] Айра, Сесар

Сесар Айра (исп. César Aira, 23 февраля 1949 (1949-02-23), Коронель-Принглес, провинция Буэнос-Айрес) — аргентинский писатель, переводчик.


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