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And Other Stories
by César Aira, Chris Andrews (translator)
The Musical Brain & Other Stories consists of twenty stories about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people from the writer The New York Review of Books calls "the novelist who can't be stopped." The author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely 96 pages each, with just nine of them so far published into English, Aira's work, and his fuga hacia adelante or flight forward into the unknown has already given us imponderables to ponder, bizarre and seemingly out of context plotlines to consider, thoughtful, and almost religious, certainly passionate takes on everyday reality. The Musical Brain is the best sampling of Aira's creativity so far, and a most exhilarating collection of characters, places, and ideas.
"Starred Review. Aira's output has been a steady trickle of irrefutable genius and deepening strangeness ... Now we have the first collection of Aira's stories, which might be his masterpiece." - Publishers Weekly
"Not everyone's cup of tea, certainly, but very few can write their way out of a corner better than Aira." - Kirkus
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César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. Wildly popular in Latin America, he has published more than seventy books of short fictions and essays.
The poet Chris Andrews has translated many books by Roberto Bolaño and César Aira for New Directions.
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