Cesar Aira
Prolific and idiosyncratic Argentine novelist who publishes several novellas a year in a deliberately improvised anti-literary style. His work has attracted cult readership worldwide for its playful refusal of novelistic convention.
Works
- An Episode in the Life of a Landscape PainterMadman's obsessive artistic vision in isolated nineteenth-century Argentina
- GhostsSpectral beings and philosophical musings in surreal literary fantasia
- The Literary ConferenceWriters converge at hotel for chaotic international literary conference
- How I Became a NunWoman joins convent and experiences rapid artistic and spiritual transformation
- The HareWoman pursues elusive hare through Argentine landscape in whimsical tale
- Ema the CaptiveNative woman captured and enslaved navigates colonialism and survival