The Literary Conference
By Cesar Aira
2006
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César is a playwright and translator who has fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds pirate treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man, but even his sudden riches can't shake his determination to conquer the world. César hurries to attend a literary conference to be near the world-renowned Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory. A comic science-fiction fantasy of the first order, The Literary Conference is the perfect vehicle for César Aira’s takeover of 21st-century literature .
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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.
