An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

César Aira (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2025
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-74688-2 (ISBN)

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It 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 plants and animals… But then something goes appallingly wrong.

This is one of Aira’s great works, filled with his baffling ability to veer between grandeur and absurdity. Each page fails to provide clues as to what lies in wait for the reader on the next.

César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. Over his long and remarkable career Aira has made his own fictional form, creating highly compressed short narratives which in other hands would contain enough material for sprawling epics. His novels available in English include Dinner, The Literary Conference, The Seamstress and the Wind, Ghosts and The Lime Tree. Aira lives in Buenos Aires.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Archive
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	110 x 180 mm
Gewicht	73 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-241-74688-4 / 0241746884
ISBN-13	978-0-241-74688-2 / 9780241746882
Zustand	Neuware