by César Aira · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483462560
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«Canto castrato» is the historical novel by César Aira, published by Debolsillo in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
After the death of Louis XIV, in 1738 the absolutist courts experience Rococo splendor. Micchino, a castrato of Italian opera, travels from Naples to Saint Petersburg with a stopover in Vienna; his singing triumphs while political intrigues are woven. The plot adds his attempt to rescue Amanda from an unhappy marriage, with echoes of Orpheus.
The novel was originally published in 1984; this edition is from 2007 and belongs to the Contemporánea collection.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative, interested in eighteenth-century Europe and the world of opera.
César Aira is an Argentine writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentine literature. He has published over a hundred short books of stories, novels and essays. He has lectured at the University of Buenos Aires, on Copi and Arthur Rimbaud, and at the University of Rosario on Constructivism and Stéphane Mallarmé, and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.
