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Who is César Aira?: translators Chris Andrews, Katherine Silver, and Rosalie Knecht

Who is César Aira?: translators Chris Andrews, Katherine Silver, and Rosalie Knecht

FromNotebook on Cities and Culture


Who is César Aira?: translators Chris Andrews, Katherine Silver, and Rosalie Knecht

FromNotebook on Cities and Culture

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Length:
67 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Colin Marshall talks to Chris Andrews, Katherine Silver, and Rosalie Knecht, English translators of the Argentine novelist César Aira, whom some readers in the Anglosphere are now finding as exciting as Borges. Despite having published over fifty books since 1975, Aira has only recently broken into English with novels such as An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, How I Became a Nun, Ghosts, The Literary Conference, and the new The Seamstress and the Wind that showcase his ability to balance the fine-grained observational detail of with outlandish fantasy and the methodical work habits and genre sensibilities of a mainstream author with the experimentalism and caprice of the avant-garde.
Released:
Sep 22, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

(Formerly The Marketplace of Ideas.) Colin Marshall sits down for in-depth conversations with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene all around Los Angeles and beyond.