New novellas from Aira are always a cause for celebration.
The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East.
With many prolific writers it’s a case of diminishing returns. César Aira, who’s published over eighty books with more to come, is an exception, his open-ended, genre trespassing novellas attesting to his peculiar virtuosity.
South America’s answer to Haruki Murakami.
Uncanny imagination à la Calvino.
Irreverent inventiveness … without analogue in contemporary literature.
César Aira is wild. The laws of gravity do not apply.