Margins
Prins book cover
Prins
2018
First Published
3.27
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Frustrado por haber permitido el naufragio de sus ambiciones literarias de juventud, un autor que ha logrado cierta popularidad publicando novelas góticas abandona definitivamente el oficio. Decide pasarse al consumo de opio. Por tal de obtenerlo se subirá en un colectivo de la línea 126 y curazará Buenos Aires sentado junto a una desconocida llamada Alicia -un ama de casa que bien podría ser el amor perdido de su época de estudiante en la Facultad de Ingeniería- hasta un submundo conocido como la Antigüedad, donde se encuentra el traficante que puede proporcionarle la tan ansiada llave que le permita acceder a la nueva Realidad. Prins es un viaje sorprendente, descabellado y delirante, repleto de laberintos subterráneos y puertas secretas que podrían formar parte de un legendario y terrorífico edificio gótico inacabado, pero que sin duda forman parte de la mente genial de quien es uno de los grandes autores argentinos de todos los tiempos.

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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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