![]() ![]() He also famously denies revising anything he writes. The author of more than 80 books, most of them short novels, Aira tells interviewers that he writes a page and a half each day in neighborhood cafés of Buenos Aires. Instead, Aira conditions his readers, writing so that devotees - what Aira calls his “deluxe” readers - can recognize the ingenious repetitions that connect his vast and bizarre body of work. ![]() Aira is wacky enough to play the game by himself, but the reader isn’t left out either. Wildly heterogeneous elements are thrown together, and the final result never fails to surprise and amuse. ![]() César Aira’s novels are the narrative equivalent of the Exquisite Corpse, that Surrealist parlor game in which players add to drawings or stories without knowledge of previous or subsequent additions. ![]()
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