New Directions
Famous Magician
Regular price
$17.95 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$17.95 USD
Unit price
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Title: Famous Magician
Author: César Aira
ISBN: 9780811228893
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher
Fiction 1210874
Publisher Description:
A certain writer (past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown') strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books. Unfortunately, he is suffering from writer's block. However, that proves to be the least of our hero's problems. In the market, he fails to avoid the insufferable boor Ovando--a complete loser but a man supremely full of himself: Conceit was never less justified. And yet, is Ovando a master magician? Can he turn sugar cubes into pure gold? And can our protagonist decline the offer Ovando proposes granting him absolute power if the writer never in his life reads another book? And is his publisher also a great magician? And the writer's wife?
Only César Aira could have cooked up this witch's potion (and only he would plop in phantom Mont Blanc pens as well as fearsome crocodiles from the banks of the Nile)--a brew bubbling over with the question: where does literature end and magic begin?
Author: César Aira
ISBN: 9780811228893
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher
Fiction 1210874
Publisher Description:
A certain writer (past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown') strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books. Unfortunately, he is suffering from writer's block. However, that proves to be the least of our hero's problems. In the market, he fails to avoid the insufferable boor Ovando--a complete loser but a man supremely full of himself: Conceit was never less justified. And yet, is Ovando a master magician? Can he turn sugar cubes into pure gold? And can our protagonist decline the offer Ovando proposes granting him absolute power if the writer never in his life reads another book? And is his publisher also a great magician? And the writer's wife?
Only César Aira could have cooked up this witch's potion (and only he would plop in phantom Mont Blanc pens as well as fearsome crocodiles from the banks of the Nile)--a brew bubbling over with the question: where does literature end and magic begin?
