El Volante

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Norma Traversini, joven profesora de Arte Escénico, decide abrir un taller de Expresión Actoral en el barrio de Flores. Para comunicarles la nueva a sus vecinos recurre al habitual, clásico volante. Nada parece más fácil, pero los interrogantes empiezan a agolparse, el enredo crece, las explicaciones se complican y el volante se precipita en una novela venturosa donde enmascarados, elefantes, condesas y escritores asisten en el rostro impasible de Lady Barbie a la revelación de un misterio diáfano: ??oela sonrisa seria”.

César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He taught at the University of Buenos Aires (about Copi and Rimbaud) and at the University of Rosario (Constructivism and Mallarmé), and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. Perhaps one of the most prolific writers in Argentina, and certainly one of the most talked about in Latin America, Aira has published more than eighty books to date in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, which have been translated for France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Romania, Russia, and now the United States. One novel, La prueba, has been made into a feature film, and How I Became a Nun was chosen as one of Argentina’s ten best books. Besides essays and novels Aira writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship, in 2002 he was short listed for the Rómulo Gallegos prize, and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.