Скачать книгу (размер 186Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Cesar is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn, he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an …
Скачать книгу (размер 205Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Daily conversations in outdoor cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera s goatherd. This seemingly small …
Скачать книгу (размер 637Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Unmistakably the work of Cesar Aira, Varamo is about the day in the life of a hapless government employee who, after wandering around all night after being paid by the Ministry in counterfeit money, eventually writes the most celebrated …
Скачать книгу (размер 263Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: «Cesar Aira has become a cult fiction writer in his native Argentina as well as throughout Latin America for his hyperrealist treatment of surreal or implausible scenarios and his aggressive defiance of literary conventions,» writes Monica de la Torre, …
Скачать книгу (размер 265Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny novel. A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and …
Скачать книгу (размер 258Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Cesar Aira s newest novel in English is not about a conventional doctor. Single, in his forties, and poor, Dr. Aira is a skeptic. His personality his weaknesses, whims, and pet peeves is summed up in a series of …
Скачать книгу (размер 481Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Clarke, a nineteenth-century English naturalist, roams the pampas in search of that most elusive and rare animal: the Legibrerian hare, whose defining quality seems to be its ability to fly. The local Indians, pointing skyward, report recent sightings of …
Скачать книгу (размер 648Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires s shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone — including two innocent teenage girls — to …
Скачать книгу (размер 321Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: «My story, the story of how I became a nun, began very early in my life, I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, …
Скачать книгу (размер 474Kb , формат fb2) Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en Аннотация: An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man s life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. An Episode …