El llanto
By Cesar Aira
1992
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Al acercarse a los 40 años, un escritor argentino se enfrenta, de golpe, a la certeza atroz de que ha sucedido “lo que más temía”: su vida se desarticula y el llanto sobreviene súbito, inexplicable. Un viaje cultural a Polonia se trueca en un año de horror y de miserias, y a la vuelta su esposa decide, sorpresivamente, “empezar a vivir”: los abandona, a él y a su perro Rin Tin Tin, por un terrorista japonés. Mientras tanto, al otro lado de la película cristalina del llanto, la alucinación, el delirio, la fantasmagoría y la invención, pero sobre todo la realidad y la pesadilla proliferan y se precipitan en el vértigo de la casualidad. Piden, por lo demás, un lector capaz de zambullirse de espaldas al reino de las explicaciones.
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Author
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.
