He is genuinely surprising.

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Aira is a writer of style, wit, immensely gifted descriptive prose, and a mind that pays homage to magical realism without mimicking it.

The tale of an artist's compulsive search for beautiful scenery, under, ahem, less than favourable conditions, it works around themes of artistic sincerity and the nature of reality.

Or a newbie looking for your first investment in Canada? César Aria's short work reflectively connects the writer's canvas of images with the painter's canvas of expression. Only after I read it did I find out that this is a perfect combination of history and novelistic invention.



In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.This is no more than a novelette and easily readable at one sitting

Very few writers are able to do that with such consistency, but for whatever reason, several of them come from Argentina. - ‘An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter’ acknowledges the subtle underside or metaphysical realm of life (?).

I thought the translation read so well that I bought the original to compare texts, confirming its high quality.

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Aira's portrait of Rugendas has an easy going, almost flat tone to it.

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713 1228 62. left significant writings on the philosophy and technique of landscape Its immediacy ran the length of the novel maintaining its tightened grip to the last word.



Some excerpts:This is such a tiny gem. It is only 80 pages long and tells a simple tale but with a density and complexity that almost demands a re-read. The allotted pages were precisely what this story called for and where it ended. This book is short though usually referred to as slim, at eighty eight pages. Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. first glance, Song and Yuan landscapes seem to conform to a narrow set





It appears to have been written in one day (November 24, 1995), takes about 2 hours to read leisurely and with contemplation, and is the result of the author letting his thoughts amble along in writing that one day until evening, when he declared it a book and was donThis is the second Aira book I've read today (the first was his "The Literary Conference"). It starts out as a meditation on humanizing landscapes through painting, but becomes the struggle of a painter grappling with a disfigurement that makes him seem inhuman to others; and there's a kind of breathless energy to the final act of the novel that I enjoyed, particularly where it cuts off, though Aira's distant, drifting approach to narration ultimately numbed the book as a whole for me.César Aira (born on February 23, 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine writer and translator, considered by many as one of the leading exponents of Argentine contemporary literature, in spite of his limited public recognition.César Aira (born on February 23, 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine writer and translator, considered by many as one of the leading exponents of Argentine contemporary literature, in spite of his limited public recognition.“Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.”“This was one of those situations in which the whole is not enough. Are you a Canadian real estate investor looking to sharpen your skills? Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Original. Below is handscroll on silk by the late Northern Song painter, Wang Shen.At A tiny, weird, 87 page masterpiece.

This book is very good. immediately after finishing its perfect ending. WORLD'S BEST ART Greatest Paintings Ever Oils, watercolours, mixed media from 1300-1800. of the mountains are what the human nature seeks, and yet can rarely

philosophical or political ideas in their work.