Three Novels

Resumen del libro

3 X Cesar Aira combines three short novels by the cult Argentinian writer in one beautifully designed box set. Irreverent, playful, provocative and prolific, Argentinian author Cesar Aira has written over seventy books and has been acknowledged internationally to be one of the most original and provocative authors in world literature. Collected here are three of his novellas, to be published for the very first time in the UK.

In Ghosts, an immigrant worker's family are squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their families see the ghosts which float around the place, but one teenage girl's interest in them becomes so intense that her mother realizes her life is in the balance. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter tells of a point in the life of German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, when he visits Latin America to paint its spectacular landscapes.

There, a strange episode interrupts his trip and irreversibly marks him for life. And in The Literary Conference, a young translator called Cesar Aira travels to a literary conference, intent on world domination...

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B César Airax{0026}lt;/B nació en Coronel Pringles, Argentina, en 1949. Desde 1967 vive en Buenos Aires dedicado a la traducción y a la escritura. Su obra ha sido publicada profusamente en Hispanoamérica, ampliamente galardonada con premios como el Roger Caillois (2014) y el Formentor (2021), entre otros, y traducida a más de veinte idiomas. Con x{0026}lt;I El santox{0026}lt;/I , Literatura Random House inauguró la Biblioteca con su nombre, donde se recuperan algunos de sus mejores títulos: x{0026}lt;I Ema, la cautiva, Cómo me hice monja, La mendiga, Cumpleaños, El mago, Canto castrato, Las noches de Flores, Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero, Parménides, Las curas milagrosas del Doctor Aira, Las aventuras de Barbaverde, El error, El congreso de literatura, Los fantasmas, El cerebro musical, Sobre el arte contemporáneo/ En La Habana, Evasión y otros ensayos, Prins, Fulgentius, Diez novelas de César Airax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I La ola que leex{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P