Fragmentos de un diario en los Alpes
By Cesar Aira
2002
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En el valle de los Alpes, la casa que esta sobre la ladera de los Alpes atesora, en todos sus planos, huecos y rincones, munecos, juguetes, miniaturas, grabados, albumes y comics, facsimiles y libros de imagenes accionados por extranos mecanismos, estatuillas, lamparas, maquetas, automatas, bonsaisb& Es el mundo encantado de la representacion, como una camara de adaptacion para salir a un universo en el que los objetos-imagenes proliferan. De esa acumulacion surge, para el viajero y para el lector, una especie de magia que lo envuelve todo. Aunque no solo de la acumulacion de objetos. Tambien, y en ultima instancia tal vez, del nacimiento del relato: el del el viaje que hubo que hacer para estar frente al Nuevo Mundo que se describe, o el de las historias que estan al fondo, o a la vuelta, de la descripcion (la cometa-luna, la mandragora, la novia invisible, el taumatropo...) y que tienen, tambien ellas, la extraneza fascinante de los objetos.
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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.
