Una novela china
By Cesar Aira
1987
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En una remota provincia china, un campesino sutil se extravia en un hechizo de amor. Como casi todos los amores, este es imposible.Pero Lu Hsin, ingenioso y paciente, decide crear una posibilidad a partir de la nada. La tarea le lleva casi toda la vida. Esta fabula erotica, intemporal y eterna aunque ineludiblemente china, sucede sobre el fondo agitado de veinte anos cruciales en la historia del Imperio de la los que median entre la Larga Marcha y la Revolucion Cultural. La hidraulica, la pintura, la politica, la vida cotidiana en una pequena aldea, y una colorida galeria de personajes (entre los que sobresale la augusta obra de Kant montada en un dragon), marcan el paso del tiempo de la ficcion, que se revela en el desenlace como el fulminante momento de la realidad y el amor dragon), marcan el paso del tiempo de la ficcion, que se revela en el desenlace como el fulminante momento de la realidad y el amor.
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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.
