Cecil Taylor
By Cesar Aira
2011
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«El ya mítico cuento Cecil Taylor de César Aira tiene un reborde biográfico y un origen biográfico. Parte del relato es la versión de Aira de una anécdota que le contó Osvaldo Lamborghini, que a su vez la había oído de boca de un suboficial. En la espléndida biografía de Lamborghini se pueden leer las dos versiones de esa historia y la que termina escribiendo Aira –publicada en una antología en 1993– son retazos de la trayectoria de Taylor pero también disquisiciones sobre el arte de la biografía, la narración, la música, el éxito y el fracaso».
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Cesar Aira
Author · 68 books
César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He taught at the University of Buenos Aires (about Copi and Rimbaud) and at the University of Rosario (Constructivism and Mallarmé), and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. Perhaps one of the most prolific writers in Argentina, and certainly one of the most talked about in Latin America, Aira has published more than eighty books to date in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, which have been translated for France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Romania, Russia, and now the United States. One novel, La prueba, has been made into a feature film, and How I Became a Nun was chosen as one of Argentina’s ten best books. Besides essays and novels Aira writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship, in 2002 he was short listed for the Rómulo Gallegos prize, and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
