Perhaps because there were other "wholes," or because the "whole" made up by the speaker and his personal world rotates like a planet, and the combined effect of rotation and orbital movement is to keep certain sides of certain planets permanently hidden.”
- ‘An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter’ acknowledges the subtle underside or metaphysical realm of life (?). But there were points where he could not have been so intimately in the character's head. She covered topics related to art history, architecture, theatre, dance, literature, and music.Before becoming an editor...
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Speaking of other reviews, much better ones for this book is like a goddamn greek myth in its perfect symmetry and simplicity. Which might be why the incredible way he curls sentences about art and seeing around and through each other works so well. Published
And, like the Clint Eastwood film "Million-Dollar Baby," it starts out as one story and turns into quite another story midway through. Aira paints a marvelous story as the character develops himself. More fun to write, probably, than it is to read. 1388 1447 165.
What a strange, bizarre little book, like a perfect, gem-like hellenistic miniature, an engraver's sketch-pad frozen or captured alphabetically... not quite normal.This short but grand 2000 novella, seemingly regarded as its prolific author’s masterpiece, is the story of the titular painter, the real-life German landscape artist, Johan Moritz Rugendas, as he suffers a life-altering accident on the Argentine pampas while on an expedition through South America.
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He has translated books by Roberto Bolaño and César Aira for New Directions. There is this ominous sense of space at work throughout the book, of the physical presence of the blasted, Argentinian pampas which is somehow always right in front of you, yet also delicately remote, somehow just past perception. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Like “A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. Or if the text somehow finds itThree stars means "I liked it" so I guess that is good enough for me. I have no idea how to do it but I am willing to learn.This is the second Aira book I've read today (the first was his "The Literary Conference").
But can this gap ever be fully brought to a close?
philosophical or political ideas in their work.
It's a little like the Bartlebooth sections in Perec's This book is short though usually referred to as slim, at eighty eight pages.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was an artist of the Northern Renaissance whose visually engrossing paintings offer a celebration of the common mass of humanity, in contrast to the pious religious painting which dominated much Renaissance art of the previous century. Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Climax comes early and inscribes how the remaining of the novel pans out. Scotland Landscape.
He has won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for his poetry and the Valle-Inclan Prize for his translations.
It's not just the plot twists that took me by surprise, it was individual descriptions and sudden parenthetical comments. In fact, the entire book is less than 90 pages, though itPart fiction, part non-fiction, part poetic description, part philosophy. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription.