Latest Review: "Dinner" by C茅sar Aira
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Lori Feathers on Dinner by C茅sar Aira, translated by Katherine Silver and out from New Directions. The first time I read C茅sar Aira was four years ago: Ghosts and The Literary Conference. At the time I had my opinions about both, but in retrospect糖心传媒攁nd this surprises ...
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Dinner
C茅sar Aira dishes up an imaginative parable on how identity shapes our sense of belonging with Dinner, his latest release in English. Aira糖心传媒檚 narrator (who, appropriately, remains nameless) is a self-pitying, bitter man糖心传媒攊n his late fifties, living again with his mother in his childhood home, in debt, jobless, never ...
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Things I'm Over, Things That Are Interesting [Some March Translations]
For the handful of people who read these posts every month (I hope there are at least three of you), unfortunately, this one is going to be pretty short. I’m really strapped for time right now, with four trips (to New York, Bennington, Toronto, Seattle-Portland) and at least seven different events scheduled for the next ...
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Latest Review: "Conversations" by C茅sar Aira
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Tiffany Nichols on C茅sar Aira’s Conversations, translated by Katherine Silver and out from New Directions. After a wild World Cup of Literature ride, what better way to wind down or frustrations or victorious cries than to talk about them (or bite each other over ...
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Conversations
In Conversations, we find ourselves again in the protagonist’s conscious and subconscious, which is mostly likely that of Mr. C茅sar Aira and consistent with prototypical Aira style. This style never fails because each time Aira is able to develop a uniquely bogus set of facts that feels as realistic as waking up each ...
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Argentina vs. France [World Cup of Literature: Second Round]
This match was judged by Tom Roberge. For more info on the World Cup of Literature, read this, and download the updated bracket. I genuinely love the World Cup. And yet every four years I糖心传媒檓 reminded why I haven糖心传媒檛 picked an English Premier League team to support, why in the end I糖心传媒檓 glad it糖心传媒檚 over, why I have no ...
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Argentina vs. Nigeria [World Cup of Literature: First Round]
This match was judged by Lance Edmonds. For more info on the World Cup of Literature, read this, and download the bracket. This is where it ends: 1-0 because in the end Argentina scores and Nigeria plays very very well. That one doesn’t work. It happens like this: I find myself underlining and rereading and ...
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