La guerra de los gimnasios
By Cesar Aira
1993
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3.29
Average Rating
151
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Ferdie Calvino, el protagonista de esta novela, es una estrella televisiva que decide inscribirse en un gimnasio para mejorar su forma física, esperando así despertar el temor entre los hombres y deseo en las mujeres. Al poco de realizar él la correspondiente inscripción en un gimnasio de Flores, su barrio, estalla un conflicto entre gimnasios en la que se disputan qué deportistas consiguen el aspecto más viril y deslumbrante.
Avg Rating
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Number of Ratings
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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.
