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César Aira - Birthday, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Birthday

Av César Aira

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Beskrivning
Before you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing—and then, just as suddenly you realize that you are fifty years old. Aira had anticipated his fiftieth—a time when he would not so much recall years past as look forward to what lies ahead—but the birthday came and went without much ado. It was only months later, while having a somewhat banal conversation with his wife about the phases of the moon, that he realized how little he really knows about his life. In Birthday Aira searches for the events that were significant to him during his first fifty years. Between anecdotes ,and memories, the author ponders the origins of his personal truths, and meditates on literature meant as much for the writer as for the reader, on ignorance, knowledge, and death. Finally, Birthday is a little sad, in a serene, crystal-clear kind of way, which makes it even more irresistible.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-02-26
  • Mått: 127 x 180 x 8 mm
  • Vikt: 77 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 88
  • Förlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 9780811219099
  • Översättare: Chris Andrews
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César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He won the 2021 Formentor Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 International Booker Prize. The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.

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"The book begins with an anecdote about a conversation the author had with his wife, in which it’s revealed that he doesn’t understand what causes the phases of the moon. This revelation of ignorance quickly cascades into a series of reflections on not-knowing, and on the reciprocal relationship between the swiftness of time, which ensures that we can’t know everything, and our discontinuous experience of time, which make knowledge feel as disjointed as memory."

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