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El presidente
2019
First Published
3.45
Average Rating
125
Number of Pages
"Se consideraba un hombre común, uno más. Y se preguntaba cómo era posible que el resto de los hombres comunes, los que eran como él, podían vivir sin ser Presidentes. Tan arraigado estaba el cargo en él, que había llegado a pensarlo como algo inherente a la condición humana. Ciertamente, todos querían ser Presidentes, pero uno solo lo era. Y los que no lo eran, es decir todos los demás, ¿cómo hacían para procesar sus vidas, para llenar sus días, para darle consistencia al tiempo y al espacio? No era tan ciego para no ver que se las arreglaban, y muy bien, hasta mejor que él. Pero no entendía cómo lo hacían."
Avg Rating
3.45
Number of Ratings
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Author

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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