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El gran misterio
2018
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“Lo mío no es derribar puertas a puntapiés, sino probar llave tras llave hasta oír el suave clic que tranquiliza y gratifica. Debo reducir las incógnitas, para lo cual antes tengo que analizar el Gran Misterio, dividirlo en los pequeños misterios que lo conforman, tomar uno, investigarlo a fondo, rastrear sus raíces y consecuencias. Una vez que termine con uno, pasar a otro y someterlo a la misma inquisición. Salvo que no sea necesario porque podría bastar con uno, uno solo podría entregarme las claves. Si no fuera así, seguir con un segundo, un tercero, triangular, comparar, si es necesario agotar toda la provisión de misterios, cosa que me llevaría una eternidad. Claro que en el camino podría arriesgar una generalización, y ponerla a prueba, y dejar descansar por unos minutos al pensamiento cansado”. El gran misterio es el libro número 100 de César Aira

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Cesar Aira
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.
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