El juego de los mundos
By Cesar Aira
1998
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En un futuro remoto en el que los libros se consideran materia muerta, un grupo de hermanos adolescentes se aficionan a un juego llamado Realidad Total. El juego es casi su única actividad, la pasión que consume sus días. Consiste en trasladarse virtualmente a un mundo poblado por una especie inteligente y declararle la guerra. Su objetivo: lograr la aniquilación de la especie en cuestión. Preocupado, el padre y narrador –un personaje anacrónico que todos los días dedica un rato a la lectura- censura la práctica de sus hijos, que considera bárbara y peligrosa. Esas orgías de destrucción le suscitan una desconfianza creciente, que culmina en una suerte de revelación: el juego servirá para allanar el camino a la reinstalación de Dios en la humanidad, una idea que él creía enterrada para siempre...
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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.
