The Famous Magician Aira Csar
The Famous Magician Aira Csar A certain writer (past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown') strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over…
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The Famous Magician Aira Csar
A certain writer (past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown') strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about books. However, that proves to be the least of our hero's problems. Unfortunately, he is suffering from writer's block.
And yet, is Ovando a master magician? In the market, he fails to avoid the insufferable boor Ovando--a complete loser but a man supremely full of himself: Conceit was never less justified. Can he turn sugar cubes into pure gold?
And can our protagonist decline the offer Ovando proposes granting him absolute power if the writer never in his life reads another book? And is his publisher also a great magician? And the writer's wife?Only Csar Aira could have cooked up this witch's potion (and only he would plop in phantom Mont Blanc pens as