Wednesday, August 1, 2007

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Miracle cures Dr. Aira

E s "César Aira a genius of literature? According to some literary criticism, rather, by Ignacio Echevarría, is one of the best writers of literature in English history. I've learned that when a critic, no matter who I do not want to make it a personal matter, makes a statement like this, is usually wrong. The campaign has made Echevarría César Aira in Spain has been spectacular, and Edward never left the wonder of how it was that it had failed to be read by the public, and even sorpendía the more restrained attitude of other critics.

Sometimes there are the writers, their writing skills, those moving toward mainstream recognition of the readers. Some great writers have not been recognized until after his death, and occasionally has to find great novels in drawers, closets and attics, ready to be discovered by an editor or critic. We can be sure that if a work is published, it will not be known, but we can also say that without a favorable review, the authors and books may go unnoticed by the news desk of the library.

less common is the personal drive of some editor or critic for a living author. Mario Muchnick, the genial editor expert editorial lead to bankruptcy, put the medal to discover Elias Canetti and make it possible to grant him the Nobel Prize. After this event arduous personal commitment, I only know that of Aira and Edward as a couple dedicated writer and propagator.

I have read only a small part of the work of Aira, and although I like and I think a writer Laurales original and worthy of glory in life and I do not think that is better than Borges, and whether even better than Cortazar to name two of his countrymen, although he likes insult to the latter. Aira is notable for the topic you choose, you might say absurd and even outrageous, development of his novels. Subjects who dons crazy in his prose to a credible and feasible, creating a series of eccentric and wicked worlds, possible fables, metaphors and parables in the world today. One can not but remain puzzled after each of his works, surprise again and again with impossible situations. No one like him is capable of writing the paranormal, metaphysical or religious construct of childhood memories or make a profound mystery of the house of his friends and inviting a living museum.

But let by Dr. Miracle cures Aira. This book, published by Mondadori in 2007 and three short novels or long stories, I'm not sure that extension intermediate estimate so difficult to establish. The first, which provides the title of the volume is undoubtedly the one that best defines the unique personal and Aira literature. First, his name appears in the title as in the novel, as the name of the main character and narrator. We do not hide anything Aira, as someone who does miraculous cures will be quite bizarre. And little by little, he explains how the doctor, no medical degree really does its strange cures, through the exclusion in parallel universes possible causes and consequences of the disease the patient suffers. The writer leaves us very easy Aira meaning: it is a picture of himself, where the doctor cures are really the stories of the writer. As surprising issue leaves us exhausted, so overwhelming, especially in developing almost histrionic history. But in doing Aira this time too obvious a comparison between his miraculous cures and writing a novel, the metaphor is deflated and it is doubtful if the author's intentions were in fact different ones. But we can not agree that writing a novel is a kind of miracle.

The other two stories do not look anything like the first, and nothing to each other, which is a definition of the work of this author. Linden and Fragments of a newspaper as Alpes Airas we present two completely different, although all three stories consist of the unique features of a very personal writer, a world capable of apparently insulting original. Linden makes what looks like a recreation of his childhood, but with several Trojan horses hidden in his seemingly leisurely flashbacks. Fragments is more difficult to define, all I can say is that it is a mere reflection acute spontaneous and literary entertainment.

Sometimes I wonder what their readers think Aira because I do not think you can not avoid some embarrassment before this game that we have submitted. A continuous attempt to surprise and stigmatize his readers with unexpected issues and some thugs who seems to never run out. I think slowly continue to acquire books, but I've given up on understanding their intentions. But they are indistinguishable not make him a genius or an author imperative; enjoy it if you like pure literature, if not, pass you by.