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Emma, La Cautiva by Cesar Aira (Paperback / softback, 2015)

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Ame lector, hay que ser pringlense, y pertenecer al Comite del Significante, para saber que una contratapa es una tapa en contra.
Sin ir mas lejos, yo lo se. Pero por alguna razon me veo frivolamente obligado a contarte como se me ocurrio esta historiola. La ocasion es propicia para las confidencias: una linda manana de primavera, en el Pumper Nic de Flores, donde suelo venir a pensar. Tomasito (dos as) juega entre las mesas colmadas de colegiales de incognito. Reina la desocupacion, el tiempo sobra.
Hace us as yo era muy pobre, y ganaba lo necesario para analista y vacaciones traduciendo, gracias a la bondad de un editor amigo, largas velas de esas llamadas goticas, odiseas de mujeres, ya inglesas, ya californianas, que trasladan sus morondangas de siempre por mares himepticos, mares de te pasional. Las disfrutaba, por supuesto, pero con la practica llegue a sentir que habia demasiadas pasiones, y que cada una anulaba a las demas como un desodorizante de ambientes. Fue todo pensarlo y concebir la idea, atletica si las hay, de escribir una gotica simplificada. Mas a la obra. Soy de decisiones imaginarias rapidas. El Eter Retor fue mi recurso. Abjure del Ser: me volvi Sei Shonagon, Sherezada, mas los animales. Las anecdotas del desti. Durante varias semanas me distraje. Sude un poco. Me rei. Y al terminar resulto que Ema, mi pequena yo mismo, habia creado para mi una pasion nueva, la pasion por la que pueden cambiarse todas las otras como el dinero se cambia por todas las cosas: la indiferencia. Que mas pedir?
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Dear reader, you have to be from Coronel Pringles, and run in the right circles, to kw how hard it is to write a back cover, because the back cover of a book is always opposing the front cover. Without getting into detail, I kw it. But for some reason, I find myself frivolously obliged to tell you how this whole tale ended up happening to me. For a long time, I translated gothic romance vels full of passion. Eventually, I started to think that I could write one, too. For several weeks, I worked at it. I sweated a bit. I laughed. And upon finishing, it turns out that Ema, my little Me, had created for me a new passion, the passion for which all others can exchange themselves, like money is exchanged for everything: indifference. What more can I ask for? The critics have said... Cesar Aira is one of the most unclassifiable authors in Latin American narrative today. Unclassifiable for his originality, for his brilliance, for his wisdom in the job of narrating, into which he mixes humor, overwhelming imagination, and sharp reflections. -El Cultural

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Publisher
Literatura Random House
ISBN-10
8439701969
ISBN-13
9788439701965
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English, English & Spanish, Spanish
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Author
Cesar Aira

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Date of Publication
06/10/2015
Country of Publication
United States

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