César Aira
César Aira (born February 23, 1949 in Coronel Pringles , Buenos Aires Province ) is an Argentine writer and translator . His trademark are short novels of around a hundred pages, of which he has been publishing three to four a year since 1992 in Latin American and Spanish publishers.
Life
César Aira grew up in the pampas . He has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967 . In 1971 he was arrested as a participant in a student meeting and imprisoned for three weeks; he later described himself as an apolitical person.
Aira initially worked as a translator, translating among others Franz Kafka and Stephen King . In an interview published in November 2009 in the Mexican-Spanish magazine " Letras Libres ", he answered the question why he was considered an outsider in the literary world who wrote for the initiated but not for a large audience that he was the kind of writer belong, which always have readers, but isolated ones who do not become an audience that publishers count on if they want to make money.
César Aira holds seminars on literature, for example at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (on Raúl Damonte alias Copi , Arthur Rimbaud ) and at the Universidad de Rosario (on constructivism , Stéphane Mallarmé ). He gave the opening speech at the Berlin International Literature Festival 2016.
Honors
In 2016 Aira was awarded the Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas .
Works
Fiction
- Continuación de ideas diversas , Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile 2014, ISBN 978-956-314-260-0 .
- Triano , 8vo loco y Alto Pogo, Buenos Aires 2014.
- Artforum , Blatt & Ríos, Buenos Aires 2014, ISBN 978-987-36-1616-7 .
- Biografía , Mansalva, Buenos Aires 2014.
- Margarita: (un recuerdo) , Mansalva, Buenos Aires 2013, ISBN 978-987-1474-87-5 .
- Tres historias pringlenses , Ed. Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires 2013, ISBN 978-987-1741-79-3 .
- El mármol , La Bestia Equitálera, Buenos Aires 2011, ISBN 978-987-1739-10-3 .
- El divorcio , Mansalva, Buenos Aires 2010, ISBN 978-987-1474-27-1 .
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El pequeño monje buddista , Mansalva, Buenos Aires 2006, ISBN 978-987-22648-4-0 .
- German: The little Buddhist monk (= library César Aira , vol. 5). Edited and translated by Klaus Laabs . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-080-2 .
- El cerebro musical , Eloísa Cartonera, Buenos Aires 2005.
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El todo que surca la nada , Eloísa Cartonera, Buenos Aires 2003.
- dt .: Everything that fears nothing . Translated by Georg Pichler. In: Wespennest , issue 151: Argentina after the crisis , Vienna, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85458-151-2 .
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Varamo . Anagrama, Barcelona 2002, ISBN 84-339-2499-0 .
- German: The nightly enlightenment of the civil servant Varamo . Translated by Matthias Strobel. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-312-00368-7 .
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La pastilla de hormona , Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires 2002.
- dt .: The hormone pill . Translated by Klaus Laabs. In: die horen , issue 238, Bremerhaven 2010.
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Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero . Viterbo, Rosario 2000, ISBN 950-845-088-6 .
- German: Humboldt's shadow . Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2003. Translated by Matthias Strobel, epilogue by Ottmar Ette , ISBN 3-312-00321-0 .
- German: An episode from the life of a travel painter (= César Aira library , vol. 3). Translated by Christian Hansen . Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-140-3 .
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El congreso de literatura . Universidad de Merida, Merida (Venezuela), 1997.
- dt .: The Literature Congress . Translated by Klaus Laabs. Ullstein, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-550-08887-2 .
- La mendiga , Grijalbo Mondadori, Buenos Aires 1998, ISBN 987-97211-1-X .
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La prueba , Grijalbo Mondadori, Barcelona 1998.
- German: The evidence (= César Aira library , vol. 2). Edited and translated by Klaus Laabs. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-080-2 .
- La dear . Emecé, Buenos Aires 1991, ISBN 950-04-1084-2 .
- Los misterios de Rosario . Emecé, Buenos Aires 1994, ISBN 950-04-1413-9 .
- Fragmentos de un diario en los Alpes , Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Rosario, 1993.
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Cómo me hice monja . Viterbo, Rosario 1993.
- German: How I became a nun (= César Aira library , vol. 1). Edited and translated by Klaus Laabs. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-080-2 .
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Embalse . Emecé, Buenos Aires 1992, ISBN 950-04-1128-8 .
- German: reservoir . Translated by Maria Hoffmann-Dartevelle. Droschl, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-85420-541-4 .
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Los fantasmas . Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires 1990, ISBN 950-694-116-5 .
- German: ghosts . Translated by Klaus Laabs. Ullstein, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-550-08824-7 .
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Cecil Taylor . Mansalva, Buenos Aires 1988, ISBN 978-987-1474-42-4 .
- German: Cecil Taylor . Translated by Stefanie Karg. In: Burkhard Pohl, Patricio Pron (ed.): Zerfurchtes Land. New stories from Argentina . Hainholz, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-932622-85-5 .
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Ema, la cautiva . Editorial de Belgrano, Buenos Aires 1981.
- dt .: Mesticine . Translated by Matthias Strobel. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-312-00341-5 .
- Duchamp in Mexico (= César Aira library , vol. 4). Essays. Translated by Klaus Laabs, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-139-7 .
Essays and journalism
- Edward Lear , Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Rosario, 2004
- Las tres fechas , Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Rosario, 2001
- Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos , Emecé, Buenos Aires, 2001, ISBN 950-04-2205-0 .
- Alejandra Pizarnik , Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Rosario, 1998
- Taxol: precedido de Duchamp en México y La broma , Simurg, Buenos Aires, 1997
- Copi , Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Rosario, 1991
Drama
- Madre e hijo , BAJO LA LUNA, 2004, ISBN 978-950-99929-7-9
literature
- Carlos Alfieri: Conversaciones. Entrevistas con César Aira, Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Roger Chartier , Antonio Muñoz Molina , Ricardo Piglia y Fernando Savater . Katz, Madrid 2008, ISBN 978-84-96859-42-5 .
- Sandra Contreras: Las vueltas de César Aira . Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Rosario 2002, ISBN 950-845-115-7 (also dissertation, University of Buenos Aires).
- Leopold Federmair : Clowns . In: Ders: Buenos Aires, Word and Flesh. Twelve essays . Klever-Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3-902665-22-5 . Pp. 103-126. <about César Aira>
- Nancy Fernández: Narraciones viajeras. César Aira y Juan José Saer . Editorial Biblos, Buenos Aires 2000, ISBN 950-786-253-6 .
- Michel Lafon (Ed.): César Aira. Une revolution . Grenoble 2005, ISBN 2-84310-075-5 .
- Guillermo Saavedra: The impertinent curiosity. Entrevistas con narradores argentinos: Adolfo Bioy Casares , Tununa Mercado , Juan Martini , Carlos Feiling , Andrés Rivera , Héctor Libertellaya , Elvio Gandolfo , Marcelo Cohen , Nicolás Peyceré , Ricardo Piglia, Luis Chitarroni , Alberto Laiseca , Luis Gusmán , César Chejfec, , Ana Basualdo , Héctor Tizón , Juan José Saer . Editorial Viterbo, Rosario 1993, ISBN 950-845-010-X .
- César Aira , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 07/2011 from February 15, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about César Aira in the catalog of the German National Library
- César Aira in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about César Aira in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Literature by and about César Aira in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
- Short biography and reviews of works by César Aira at perlentaucher.de
- “I am a representative of elitism” - Interview with César Aira by Eva-Christina Meier and Andreas Fanizadeh, in: taz , November 11, 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Carmen Eller: I have to concentrate . Interview, in: The Literary World , October 8, 2016, p. 8
- ↑ In praise of ingenuity - Interview November 2009 (Spanish). Retrieved April 12, 2011.
- ↑ Manuel Rojas Prize for César Aira . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 5, 2016, p. 12.
- ↑ César Aira receives Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Rojas , boersenblatt.net, September 2, 2016, accessed on September 2, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Aira, César |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Coronel Pringles |