Seamstress and Wind

La costurera y el viento

◆ A work by Cesar Aira, the heir of Borges and a unique master of contemporary Latin American literature, whose imagination sweeps like a hurricane ◆ Bolano, author of "2666," highly recommended by rock star Patti Smith ◆ This is my favorite of Aira's novels. — Roberto Bolaño ———————
A seamstress's only son has gone missing, and neighbors say a large truck is taking him to Patagonia;
The seamstress was anxious and quickly got into a taxi to frantically search for her son;
The seamstress's husband returned home and chased after her in his red pickup truck;
Behind these people, there was a mysterious blue car following closely.
That day, it seemed like everyone was heading south, to Patagonia, the end of the world, where the devil was born.
There was a passionate wind, who had long been in love with the seamstress. He blew the wind like crazy, trying his best to stop the devil's steps...
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【Comment】
Ella is the Duchamp of Latin American literature. He is one of the most alluring and eccentric Spanish-language novelists of our time, and he is absolutely not to be missed. —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Times Book Review
Under Ella's pen, ambiguity is transformed into order, mysteries are clarified, and every seemingly digressive narrative ultimately has its 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)
Ella is obsessed with how to define and depict reality, no matter how absurd it may be, and ultimately create a new image of reality. - Book Forum
Ella firmly inherited the writing tradition of Borges and WG Sebald. - Mark Doty (famous American poet)
Ella transcended the boundaries of reality, and the world no longer lived up to his imagination. —Benjamin Letard, The New York Sun

2021-01-01

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing, Chuchen Culture

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