Hare

La liebre

◆ Borges's heir, César Aira, a unique master of contemporary Latin American literature, creates a bizarre work that traverses reality and imagination. ◆ Legend has it that a hare rolled down a cave, and thus began the story. ◆ 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
In 19th-century Argentina, an Englishman named Clarke travels to the Pampas in search of a legendary flying hare. He is accompanied by a taciturn gaucho guide, a lively and lovable painter, and a magical horse. Shortly after they reach the territory of the Mapuche Indians, the chief mysteriously disappears.
Clark shoulders the heavy responsibility of finding the hare and the chief, but step by step he enters an even more bizarre mystery. Secrets and past events that could change the course of their lives will be revealed one by one on this journey.
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【Comment】
"The Hare" makes the bland, boring Pampas grassland as strange and varied as Alice's Wonderland. -- National Radio (NPR)
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)

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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9787208159655