Parménides
By Cesar Aira
2006
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Movido por el ánimo de trascender en el tiempo y ganarse la gloria intelectual dentro y fuera de su patria, Parménides, jerarca griego del siglo V a. de C., decide escribir un libro acerca de la naturaleza. Su escasa capacidad para la escritura le lleva a hacerse con los servicios del escritor Perinola. La relación entre Parménides y Perinola adquiere una intensidad asfixiante, y así pasan los años, mientras Perinola intenta escribir un libro que, probablemente, nunca llegará a existir. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9788439720225.
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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.
