Actos de Presencia: Disertaciones (1989-2021) / Acts of Presence: Lectures (1989-2021)
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ISBN10: 843974451X
ISBN13: 9788439744511
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.42 Depth: 9.03
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9788439744511
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.42 Depth: 9.03
Language: Spanish
Once piezas en las que el gran escritor argentino reflexiona sobre el mundo, su escritura y quienes mejor han sabido representarlo. «El escritor y el lector, se dirÃa, acaban por fundirse enel ensayista, con la inteligencia chispeante y la elegancia espontánea que solapan el esfuerzo en las mejores piezas delgénero, y laten de tanto en tanto en las digresiones antojadizas de sus ficciones . --Gabriela Speranza, Otra Parte Inspirado por la metodologÃa de la «atención total de Krishnamurti -a quien la realidad dejaba en éxtasis cada tarde-, César Aira exhorta a la superación de la ceguera del urbanita que sin tiempo para nada es incapaz de demorarse para observar la maravilla del mundo. Autor fundamental, en estas once ponencias y charlas desvela los delicados mecanismos del artificio literario, incita a imaginar una Buenos Aires vaciada de todo excepto de sus árboles o a repasar una poética del trazo entre las notas de Duchamp para El gran vidrio, el proyecto calÃgrafo-manÃaco de Levrero o la letra Ãnfima que para Benjamin implicaba un pensamiento refinado... La inteligencia desfachatada y excepcional de Aira vuelve estos ensayos puro goce y puro juego. Un sacudón a cualquier hábito que amenace con adormecer la sensibilidad o impida la sorpresa. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Eleven pieces in which the great Argentinian writer reflects on the world, his narrative, and those who have known how to portray him better. The writer and the reader, one could say, end up fused in the essayist, with the sparkling wit and the spontaneous elegance that overlap the effort in the best pieces of the genre, and pulse every so often through the whimsical digressions of his fictions. --Gabriela Speranza, Otra Parte Inspired by the methodology of absolute attention by Krishnamurti--whom reality left ecstatic every afternoon--César Aira appeals to overcoming the urbanite's blindness who, having no time for anything, is incapable of being late to observe the wonders of the world. Essential author, in these eleven lectures and talks, Aira reveals the delicate mechanisms of the literary artifice, incites us to imagine Buenos Aires emptied of everything except trees, or to revisit a poetic of lines among Duchamps' notes for The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, the maniac-calligraphic project by Levrero, or the unintelligible handwriting that Benjamin believed implied a refined thought... Aira's brazen and exceptional intelligence turns these essays into pure joy and pure play. A shock to any habit that threatens to numb sensibilities or prevent surprises.
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