El santo
By Cesar Aira
2015
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Un anciano monje que reside en una población próxima a la costa catalana consagra su existencia a la meditación y la oración. Tras obrar una serie de milagros, su fama se extiende a lo largo de toda la región y le convierten en una figura de culto. Más adelante, viéndose en el ocaso de su vida, decide emprender el regreso a su Italia natal. Esta noticia hace que el abad y las autoridades tramen su asesinato con el fin de conservar la sagrada reliquia del cuerpo del monje. Con la publicación de esta novela, Literatura Random House inaugura la Biblioteca César Aira conjuntamente con la recuperación de algunas de sus mejores obras.
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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.
