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Evasión y otros ensayos / Escape and Other Essays (Spanish Edition)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Cesar Aira
    Format:
    Hardcover
    Pages:
    128
    Publisher:
    PRH Grupo Editorial (March 27, 2018)
    Language:
    Spanish
    ISBN-13:
    9788439733669
    ISBN-10:
    8439733666
    Weight:
    7.2oz
    Dimensions:
    4.6" x 7.7" x 0.7"
    Case Pack:
    37
    File:
    RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260405T165152_155746783-20260405.xml
    Folder:
    RandomHouse
    List Price:
    $16.95
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    $13.05
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-RH
    Discount Code:
    A
    QuickShip:
    Yes
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    Spain
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Literatura Random House
  • Overview

    César Aira, maestro indiscutible de las letras de nuestro idioma, define su ficción como «ensayos disfrazados de novelas». En este volumen, sin embargo, su espléndida faceta de ensayista cobra protagonismo para dar cuenta del mundo de referencias y la singular poética que le caracteriza.

    Integrado por cinco textos, Evasión y otros ensayos trata sobre la forma y el contenido narrativo, el proceso de creación y la función de la literatura, temas todos ellos fundamentales para el autor argentino.

    Bien sea rompiendo lanzas en favor de la ficción de entretenimiento de autores como Stevenson, como sucede en «Evasión», o elogiando la placentera «inutilidad» de la literatura en «Discurso breve», texto con el que inauguró el Festival de Literatura de Berlín de 2016, los ensayos de César Aira son luminosos y contundentes a un tiempo.

    El procedimiento literario propuesto por Raymond Roussel, su referente en la vanguardia, o aquel otro en el que analiza el concepto de «genialidad» a través de la figura de Salvador Dalí, otro de sus grandes modelos, completan este volumen, una extraordinaria recopilación que se cierra con otra joya made in Aira: un ensayo sobre la temática propia del ensayo.

    ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

    César Aira, indisputable master of Spanish-language literature, defines his fiction as "essays disguised as novels." In this volume, however, his splendid skill as an essayist gains prominence, showing off the wealth of references and unique poetics that characterize his work.

    Containing five texts, Escape and Other Essays discusses narrative form and content, the process of creation, and the function of literature: all fundamental themes for the Argentinean author. Whether standing up for entertainment fiction, as he does in "Escape," or praising the pleasant "uselessness" of literature in "Short Speech," the text with which he opened the 2016 International Literature Festival Berlin, César Aira’s essays are simultaneously luminous and potent.