US/EN
The Little Buddhist Monk & the Proof
César Aira
(Author)
Nick Caistor
(Translator)
Description
The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. The Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit ("Wannafuck?" is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. These two Aira works are as different as night and day. Nevertheless, sex, identity, and modern day economics figure deeply in both of these fast-paced, edgy fictions.Product Details
Price
$14.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
May 30, 2017
Pages
224
Dimensions
4.9 X 0.7 X 6.9 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811221122
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About the Author
The poet CHRIS ANDREWS teaches at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, where he is a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. He has translated books by Roberto Bolano and César Aira for New Directions. He has won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for his poetry and the Valle-Inclan Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for his translations.
Nick Caistor has lived for several years in Buenos Aires as well as visiting it often over the past three decades. He has reported on Argentina for the BBC/WGBH and is a translator as well as the author of numerous books on Latin America, including Che Guevara: A Life (also published by Interlink).
Reviews
Aira delivers one surreal unraveling of reality after another that proceeds paradox by paradox into psychic realms.--Michael Upchurch
Cesar Aira is wild. The laws of gravity do not apply.--James S.A. Correy
Irreverent inventiveness ... without analogue in contemporary literature.--Megan Doll
South America's answer to Haruki Murakami.--Andrew Irvin
Aira's novels parody narrative form, destroy normal cause and effect, and contain bold conceptual dialogues.--Michael Eaude
New novellas from Aira are always a cause for celebration.--Brian Evenson
Uncanny imagination à la Calvino.--Laura Pearson
Aira continues to surprise and delight in his latest release from New Directions, which collects two novellas...There are a number of similarities to be sure--they both revolve around the sudden but intense relationship between three characters, they both take place over the course of less than twenty-four hours, they are both, at turns, wildly funny.--The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof (08/08/2017)
Cesar Aira is wild. The laws of gravity do not apply.--James S.A. Correy
Irreverent inventiveness ... without analogue in contemporary literature.--Megan Doll
South America's answer to Haruki Murakami.--Andrew Irvin
Aira's novels parody narrative form, destroy normal cause and effect, and contain bold conceptual dialogues.--Michael Eaude
New novellas from Aira are always a cause for celebration.--Brian Evenson
Uncanny imagination à la Calvino.--Laura Pearson
Aira continues to surprise and delight in his latest release from New Directions, which collects two novellas...There are a number of similarities to be sure--they both revolve around the sudden but intense relationship between three characters, they both take place over the course of less than twenty-four hours, they are both, at turns, wildly funny.--The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof (08/08/2017)
