Pola Oloixarac: Mona (Mona)
The latest addition to my website is Pola Oloixarac's Mona (Mona). Our heroine/narrator is Mona Tarrile-Byrne, a Peruvian writer. Her first novel was well received and helped get her onto…
The latest addition to my website is Pola Oloixarac's Mona (Mona). Our heroine/narrator is Mona Tarrile-Byrne, a Peruvian writer. Her first novel was well received and helped get her onto…
The latest addition to my website is Juan José Saer's El limonero real (The Regal Lemon Tree). the character in this book - an extended family celebrating New Year's Eve…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's El divorcio (The Divorce). The book is about a lot of things but not divorce, except for the title and the…
The latest addition to my website is Martín Caparrós'Sinfin [Endless]. The key theme of the book is immortality. We follow the development from the present time to 2072 of a…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Margarita. This is not one of Aira's best. The narrator, presumably based at least in part on Aira himself, is, just…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Canto Castrato. This is by far the longest novel by Aira I have read and by far the most disappointing. It…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Fulgentius. The eponymous hero of this book is a sixty-seven year old Roman general. He is setting out on his latest…
The latest addition to my website is Agustina Bazterricas Cadáver exquisito (Tender Is the Flesh). This is a novel about cannibalism, not occasional cannibalism but official, world-wide cannibalism. A virus…
The latest addition to my website is Sergio Bizzio's Borgestein. Enzo, the narrator, is an Argentinian psychiatrist. He is attacked and wounded with a knife by one of his patients,…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Artforum (Artforum). This is a series of short pieces all linked by the US art magazine Artforum. The narrator is a…