Prisoner Emma

Ema, la cautiva

◆ A classic masterpiece by Cesar Aira, the successor of Borges and a unique master of contemporary Latin American literature◆ How can a woman who has lost her freedom find a way to fight against this world?
◆ Highly recommended by Bolaño, author of "2666," and rock star Patti Smith◆ César Aira is one of the very few greatest Spanish-language writers of our time. Once you start reading his works, you won't want to stop. —Roberto Bolaño Simply because she was born in that year, she was destined to encounter strange things throughout her life.
With her baby in her arms, Emma was taken to the wild frontier of Argentina, where she drifted from soldier to soldier and Indian to Indian. Along the way, she met all sorts of bizarre and fascinating characters: an officer who wanted to print his own banknotes and establish a monetary empire, a hedonistic Indian prince, and a mysterious Princess Catril...
Year after year, Emma wanders in a strange land with her children. How will she finally find hope in life?
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【Comment】
Under Ella's pen, ambiguity is transformed into order, mysteries are clarified, and every seemingly digressive narrative ultimately has its own purpose. - Publishers Weekly
After reading Ella, I often remember nothing, just like waking up from a dream and realizing that the complex movie scenes in the dream have disappeared. - Patti Smith, The New York Times Book Review
Ella's work is a dense, erratic, and intricately constructed building projected onto the plains, its unassuming lyricism perfectly balanced with his penchant for incongruous combinations of metaphysics, realism, pulp fiction, and Dadaism. —Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books
You really should go to southern Argentina to find the most innovative, exciting, shocking, and subversive writer in Spanish-language literature today: César Aira. (El País, Spain)
Emma the Prisoner could be considered the perfect introduction to Ella's literary world. Emma's world is lush and fantastical, yet never intrusive. The reader is immersed in a landscape teetering on the edge of innocence, filled with animals and smells that are almost unimaginable in modern life. —Mark Harber, Lithub e-magazine

2019-09-01

世纪文景×楚尘文化丨上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing, Chuchen Culture

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