Varamo is the sixth tiny book (only 89 pages) of Aira’s to be published in English by New Directions. His name is Varamo, and César Aira’s novel of the same name is a literary exercise in constructing the context in which he created this genius work using only the poem itself.
As he tries to figure out what to do about this perilous situation, he unsuccessfully taxidermies a fish, discovers an underground golf-club-trafficking operation, and writes a seminal work of Central American avant-garde poetry called “The Song of the Virgin Child.” It is the first poem he has ever written and the last he will write. February 28th, 2012 César Aira’s Varamo reaffirms Aira’s place as seminal Latin American writer whose work wanders between bizarre situations and philosophical digressions.Ī government employee in the newly independent state of Panama is handed counterfeit bills when picking up his monthly salary of two hundred pesos.
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