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On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701867Author Cesar AiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint David ZwirnerPublisher David... -
The Seamstress and the Wind by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chase in a taxi. Her husband... -
The Divorce by Cesar Aira 9781913505042
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation A recently divorced man trying to enjoy himself in one of... -
The Lime Tree by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by... -
Cumpleanos by Cesar Aira 9788439710523
Booksplease Price: £17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788439710523Author Cesar AiraFormat PaperbackImprint MondadoriPublisher Mondadori -
The Proof by Cesar Aira 9781908276964
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she's walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns round and is confronted by two punk girls Lenin... -
The Divorce by Cesar Aira 9780811230933
Booksplease Price: £9.21The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small daughter. He travels to Buenos Aires and there,... -
The Little Buddhist Monk by Cesar Aira 9781908276988
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28In Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf-sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and... -
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by Cesar Aira 9780811216302
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was... -
How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira 9780811216319
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.64The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist... -
The Famous Magician Cesar Aira (New Directions) 9780811228893
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of... -
Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin 9780823286829
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical,... -
Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical,... -
Game of the Worlds and Festival by César Aira 9780811237307
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.01In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he's brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled:... -
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira 9780241746882
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.74It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal... -
“Vanguardia” y “tradición” en la narrativa de César Aira by Nancy Fernández 9781930744738
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.30Nancy Fernandez se desempena como investigadora independiente en CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas) y como docente e investigadora en la Universidad Nacional de Mar... -
The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero 9781916751064
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Levrero's writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher-like grammatical maze of 'The Boarding House' to the Lewis... -
Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America by Gabriel Horowitz 9781684485000
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature,... -
City of Rats by Copi 9781529951523
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A darkly comic and wildly transgressive fever dream of a book, following one lost rat on a fantastical odyssey through the strange and deranged underbelly of Paris; this is Ratatouille on acid. ... -
Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture by Micah McKay 9781683404286
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The ecological, social, and aesthetic functions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to MexicoThis book looks at the role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from the twentieth and... -
Under Latin American Eyes Witold Gombrowicz in Argentinian Literature by Ryszard Nycz 9783631874271
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £41.62This book explores the influence and reception of Witold Gombrowicz’s works in Argentina, where he spent over two decades and wrote much of his oeuvre. It examines the "Gombrowicz effect" in... -
The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No by Aaron Hillyer 9781501306808
Booksplease Price: £40.79In this book Aaron Hillyer considers the implications of Maurice Blanchot's strange formulation: "Literature is heading to its essence, which is its disappearance." This quest leads Hillyer to stage... -
Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America by Gabriel Horowitz 9781684484997
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature,... -
The Postman (Il Postino): A Novel by Antonio Skarmeta 9780393330397
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.52The unforgettable inspiration for the Academy Award-winning Il Postino, this classic novel established Antonio Skarmeta's reputation as "one of the most representative authors of the post-boom... -
The Translator's Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction by Professor or Dr. Heather Cleary 9781501373459
Booksplease Price: £33.84At the intersection of translation studies and Latin American literary studies, The Translator's Visibility examines contemporary novels by a cohort of writers - including prominent figures such as... -
The Literature of Catastrophe: Nature, Disaster and Revolution in Latin America by Dr. Carlos Fonseca 9781501370700
Booksplease Price: £33.84This book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Latin American Wars of Independence. Synthesizing intellectual history and readings of textual... -
A Musical Hell by Alejandra Pizarnik
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44"An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes Cesar Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems... -
Ten Juan Emar 9780811232074
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemon, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts... -
Late Book Culture in Argentina by Craig Epplin 9781501318276
Booksplease Price: £40.38Modern literary culture depended on the medium of the print book. Today, with the advent of digital technologies, it is far from apparent that print is, or should be, the vehicle of choice for... -
Notes from Childhood by Norah Lange
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained, interconnected fragments begin with her family's departure to Mendoza in 1910 and... -
Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature by Stephanie N. Saunders 9781855663428
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.29In the last two decades, the glorification of sewing - whether involving needlework, tailoring, or fashion design - has thrived in Latin American and Iberian cultural works, particularly literature... -
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature by Luis Borges 9780811222747
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.12Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's... -
Queer Argentina: Movement Towards the Closet in a Global Time by Matthew J. Edwards 9781137581594
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £70.03Through insightful, high-paced commentary this book directs attention south, towards Argentina. Current events, political debates, and the cultural production of artists, authors and public... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168427
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.50Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other... -
The Dancer and the Thief: A Novel by Antonio Skarmeta 9780393333671
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.89This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protege, "conjures...a contemporary Santiago, Chile, where... -
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos 9781913505578
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168434
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other... -
Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht 9780857308122
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in... -
Texas: The Great Theft: 10th Anniversary edition Carmen Boullosa 9781646053537
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31A contemporary classic from award-winning author Carmen Boullosa, in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges and Cesar Aira, now available in a special Tenth Anniversary Edition. Loosely... -
The Impostor: and Other Stories by Silvina Ocampo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride...