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Cesar Aira in New Yorker
This week’s New Yorker has a new short story by Cesar Aira called “The Musical Brain” (it’s only available for subscribers, but you can find an in-depth discussion of it here).
I don’t think he’s ever been featured in The New Yorker before, so I suppose this is fairly big news for Cesar Aira in the U.S. Perhaps after this one they’ll publish “Cecil Taylor,” one of his best stories and one that has been translated but has been unfairly languishing.
All in all, it looks like 2012 is going to be a great year for Aira. Varamo will be publishing in February in Chris Andrews’ translation, and there’s currently another Aira slated for the fall in Katherine Silver’s translation.
And of course you all should read my interview with Aira in the current Tin House.
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
Know where I could find that English translation of ‘Cecil Taylor’?
I didn’t know it had been translated (and still don’t know where a translation can be found), so I translated it myself. I’m not a professional translator, but if you still you want to read, you can find it here: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/nediger/files/cecil_taylor.pdf.
Seconding the ‘Cecil Taylor’ request!