An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
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It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint the sights that unfold: vast chasms, surreal plants and animals… But then something goes appallingly wrong.
This is one of Aira’s great works, filled with his baffling ability to veer between grandeur and absurdity. Each page fails to provide clues as to what lies in wait for the reader on the next.
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The Fire Next Time
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The Driver's Seat
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Chess
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The House of Hunger
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The Burial of the Rats
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
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The Daemon Lover
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Where Everything is Music
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Can Socialists be Happy?
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The Blazing World
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A Dog's Heart
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A Dill Pickle
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Why I am a Stoic
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A Hunger-Artist
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Transformation
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A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
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Coal
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The New Dress
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Secretary
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Lamb to the Slaughter
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The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
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Night Flight
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Thousand Cranes
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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
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After Midnight
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Paris France
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The Rich Boy
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For Art and for Life
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Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
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Horsie
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Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
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Lady L.
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Requiem
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Tristessa
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Family Happiness
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Some Japanese Ghosts
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The Story of an Hour
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The Prose Edda
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The Umbrella
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
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To Read and Dream
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Lois the Witch
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No Coward Soul Is Mine
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Stan the Killer
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Closely Watched Trains
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The Broken Nest
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A Lady in Kyoto
César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. Over his long and remarkable career Aira has made his own fictional form, creating highly compressed short narratives which in other hands would contain enough material for sprawling epics. His novels available in English include Dinner, The Literary Conference, The Seamstress and the Wind, Ghosts and The Lime Tree. Aira lives in Buenos Aires.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241746882 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241746884 |
| Title | An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter |
| Author | Aira Cesar |
| Series | Penguin Archive |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |