César Aira
Biography
César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, in the province of Buenos Aires, in 1949 but moved to the Flores district of Buenos Aires when he was eighteen. He has taught courses on literature in universities in Argentina. He is a very prolific writer, writing novels, stories and essays.
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César Aira’s unreal magic: how the eccentric author took over Latin American literature
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Ahora que ya no traduzco Aira on translation – in Spanish
César Aira: “La calidad está más a la vista en lo breve que en lo extenso” (novel) Spanish)
Bibliography
1975 Moreira (novel)
1981 Ema, la cautiva (Ema, The Captive) (novel)
1983 La luz argentina (novel)
1984 El vestido rosa (stories)
1984 Canto castrato (novel)
1984 Las ovejas (novel)
1987 Una novela china [A Chinese Novel] (novel)
1990 Los fantasmas (Ghosts) (novel)
1991 Copi (essay)
1991 El bautismo (novel)
1991 La liebre (The Hare) (novel)
1991 Nouvelles impressions du Petit Maroc (essay)
1992 La guerra de los gimnasios [The War of the Gymnasia] (novel)
1992 Embalse [Reservoir] (novel)
1992 La prueba (The Proof) (novel)
1992 El llanto [Crying] (novel)
1992 El volante [The Flyer] (novel)
1993 Cómo me hice monja (How I Became a Nun) (novel)
1993 Madre e hijo (novel)
1993 Diario de la hepatitis (novel)
1994 El infinito (novel)
1994 Los misterios de Rosario [The Mysteries of Rosario] (novel)
1994 La costurera y el viento (The Seamstress and the Wind) (novel)
1995 Los dos payasos (novel)
1995 La fuente (novel)
1995 Argentina: The Great Estancias (photos by Tomas de Elia and Cristina Cassinelli de Corral)
1996 Abeja (novel)
1996 El mensajero (novel)
1997 El congreso de literatura (The Literary Conference) (novel)
1997 Taxol: precedido de Duchamp en México y La broma (essay)
1997 Dante y reina (novel)
1997 La broma (novel)
1998 La nueva escritura (essay)
1998 Alejandra Pizarnik (essay)
1998 Las curas milagrosas del Dr. Aira (The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira) (novel)
1998 La trompeta de mimbre (novel)
1998 La serpiente (novel)
1998 El Sueño (novel)
1998 La mendiga (novel)
2000 Cumpleaños (Birthday) (memoirs)
2000 El juego de los mundos (Game of the Worlds) (novel)
2000 Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero (An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter) (novel)
2001 Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos
2001 Un sueño realizado (novel)
2001 Las tres fechas (novel)
2001 La villa (Shantytown) (novel)
2002 El mago (novel)
2002 Fragmentos de un diario en los Alpes (novel)
2002 Varamo (Varamo) (novel)
2002 La pastilla de hormona (novel)
2003 El tilo (The Lime Tree; The Linden Tree) (novel)
2003 Mil gotas (novel)
2003 La Princesa primavera [Princess Springtime] (novel)
2003 El todo que surca la nada (novel)
2004 Las noches de Flores [The Nights of Flores] (novel)
2004 Edward Lear (literature)
2004 Yo era una chica moderna (novel)
2004 La Maleta de Ursula y otros cuentos (stories)
2005 El cerebro musical (The Musical Brain) (novel)
2005 Cómo me reí (novel)
2005 Yo era una niña de siete años
2005 El pequeño monje budista (The Little Buddhist Monk) (novel)
2005 Haikus (novel)
2006 Parménides (novel)
2006 La cena (Dinner) (novel)
2007 Pequeño manual de procedimientos (essay)
2007 La vida nueva (novel)
2007 Las conversaciones (Conversations) (story)
2008 Las aventuras de Barbaverde [The Adventures of Barbaverde] (novel)
2009 La confesión [The Confession] (novel)
2010 El divorcio (The Divorce) (novel)
2010 El error (novel
2010 El té de Dios (story)
2010 Yo era una mujer casada [I Was a Married Woman] (novel)
2011 El mármol (novel)
2011 Cecil Taylor (novel)
2011 El náufrago (novel)
2011 Festival (Festival) (novel)
2011 Los dos hombres (novel)
2012 Entre los indios (novel)
2013 Relatos reunidos (stories)
2013 El testamento del mago tenor [The Will of the Tenor Magician] (novel)
2013 Tres relatos pringlenses (stories)
2013 Actos de caridad (story)
2013 El ilustre mago (The Famous Magician) (story)
2013 Margarita (un recuerdo) (novel)
2014 Continuación de ideas diversas (essay)
2014 Artforum (Artforum) (novel)
2014 Triano (essay)
2014 Biografía (story)
2015 El santo [The Saint] (novel)
2015 La invención del tren fantasma (novel)
2016 Sobre el arte contemporáneo (On Contemporary Art) / En La Habana (essay)
2017 Una aventura (novel)
2017 Eterna Juventud (novel)
2017 Saltó al otro lado (novel)
2017 Evasión y otros ensayos (essays)
2018 El gran misterio (novel)
2018 Continuación de ideas diversas (essays)
2018 Un filósofo (novel)
2018 Prins (novel)
2019 Pinceladas musicales (novel)
2019 El presidente [The President] (novel)
2020 Fulgentius (Fulgentius) (novel)
2020 Lugones (novel)
202 Front cover image for El pelícano (novel)
El pelícano
2021 La ola que lee (reviews and articles)
3032 Catálogo descriptivo de la obra de Emeterio Cerro
2022 El jardinero, el escultor y el fugitivo (novel)
2022 El panadero (novel)
2022 El crítico – La prosopopeya (essay)
2022 Los últimos días de Nostradamus (novel)
2023 El hornero y otros relatos (stories)
2023 En La Confiteria Del Gas Y Otros Cuento (stories)
2022 Una educación defectuosa: Discurso de recepción del Premio Formentor (essay)
2024 Ideas diversas (essay)
2024 En el pensamiento (novel)
2024 Los Hombrecitos con Sobretodo (novel)