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Varamo

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ISBN-10: 0811217418

ISBN-13: 9780811217415

Edition: 2012

Authors: Cesar Aira, Chris Andrews, Chris Andrews

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Unmistakably the work of César Aira, Varamo is about the day in the life of a hapless government employee who, after wandering around all night after being paid by the Ministry in counterfeit money, eventually writes the most celebrated masterwork of modern Central American poetry, The Song of the Virgin Boy. What is odd is that, at fifty years old, Varamo “hadn’t previously written one sole verse, nor had it ever occurred to him to write one.”Among other things, this novella is an ironic allegory of the poet’s vocation and inspiration, the subtlety of artistic genius, and our need to give literature an historic, national, psychological, and aesthetic context. But Aira goes further…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New Directions
Publication date: 2/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.10" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English