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Essay: On César Aira’s Magic — How the eccentric Argentine author came to occupy the center of Latin American literature. By Alejandro Chacoff, translated by Jessica Sequeira

Essay: On César Aira’s Magic — How the eccentric Argentine author came to occupy the center of Latin American literature. By Alejandro Chacoff, translated by Jessica Sequeira | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.thedial.world - May 3, 10:30 AM
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ALEJANDRO CHACOFF is a writer based in Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Apátridas, a novel, and the literary editor at piauí magazine. His work appears in The New Yorker, The NYRB, the New York Times Book Review, n+1, and elsewhere. JESSICA SEQUEIRA is a writer and translator currently based in Santiago, Chile.
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Essay on Fiction: 'Ema, the Captive' by César Aira, translated by Chris Andrews - Mischievous, absurd, violent, ironic - Essay by Victoria Baena

Essay on Fiction: 'Ema, the Captive' by César Aira, translated by Chris Andrews - Mischievous, absurd, violent, ironic - Essay by Victoria Baena | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From bookforum.com - May 20, 2017 11:23 AM
In his native Argentina, César Aira no longer shocks audiences with his genre-bending works, surrealist plot twists, or the sheer pace of his output (he’s written …
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Victoria Baena is a writer and PhD candidate in comparative literature based in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Essay on Fiction: 'Dinner' by César Aira, translated by Katherine Silver - Ingeniously constructed, a marvellous box of tricks - Essay by Jon Bartlett

Essay on Fiction: 'Dinner' by César Aira, translated by Katherine Silver - Ingeniously constructed, a marvellous box of tricks - Essay by Jon Bartlett | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From bookforum.com - May 20, 2017 2:42 PM
He writes like an improviser: never revises the page a day he produces; adds digressions and confounding details that he must then strive to incorporate into his existing plots. The reader gets to watch as he struggles to find a foothold and has the occasional near miss, like a tightrope-walker’s deliberate, theatrical stumble.
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Jon Bartlett is a writer living in Northampton, MA.
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