by César Aira · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483466339
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«Parménides» is the novel by César Aira published by Debolsillo in paperback, with 128 pages, in Spanish.
Parménides, a prominent Greek hierarch of the 5th century BC, commissions the writer Perinola to write a book about nature with his ideas. The relationship between the two becomes intense and dependent as the commission drags on for years, in a satire on the desire to write, fair pay, and recognition of creative work.
Edition in the Contemporánea collection from Debolsillo, published in 2008. The work originally appeared in 2006.
For readers fond of César Aira's narrative and satires about the craft of writing.
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.
