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For the Feast of All Saints :: [Robert Scott Horton]
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“He had developed a superstitious fear of the instant, that tiny hole through which all the time available to human beings must pass.”
— César Aira, Varamo [exhaled-spirals]
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He had developed a superstitious fear of the instant, that tiny hole through which all the time available to human beings must pass.
César Aira, Varamo
A German soldier is hit by enemy fire, Ukraine, c. 1943
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“He had developed a superstitious fear of the instant, that tiny hole through which all the time available to human beings must pass.”
— César Aira, Varamo
[exhaled-spirals]
“Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.”
César Aira, Varamo
If a work is dazzingly innovative and opens up unexplored paths, the merit is not to be found in the work itself, but in its transformative effect on the historical moment that engendered it. Novelty makes its causes new, giving birth to them retrospectively.
César Aira, Varamo.
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The quintessential Aira sentence. It appears at least three times in each of his novels.
Varamo by César Aira on Novel Songs
A Listening Companion
Creque Alley - The Mamas and The Papas And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison Sugar Mountain - Neil Young The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell When We Was Fab - George Harrison Legend in My Living Room - Annie Lennox TB Blues - Jimmie Rodgers Story of Bo Didley - Bo Didley Safe European Home - The Clash Sellout - Juliana Hatfield Nutbush City Limits - Tina Turner Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case
And second, César Aira's VARAMO.
Right now a novel’s length seems a neutral force. Over here, you have Haruki Murakami and Peter Nadas lying silent for years, then storming the shores of consciousness with thousand-page dreadnoughts; over there, the Argentine writer César Aira, pumping out books of one-tenth the size that can still put knots in your brain. [Read More Here]
