La Ola Que Lee / The Wave That Reads

Premio Formentor 2021

«Leer a C?sar Aira es siempre una experiencia sorprendente.

Arturo Garc?a Ramos, ABC Resultado de un exhaustivo y vasto rastreo en hemerotecas y colecciones privadas a cargo de la investigadora Mar?a Bel?n Riveiro, La ola que lee compila rese?as, notas y columnas --dispersas, variadas y hasta ahora inhallables-- que C?sar Aira public? en revistas y diarios de la Argentina, Espa?a y Latinoam?rica durante tres d?cadas a partir de 1981, a?o de su debut con Ema, la cautiva .

Ajena a cualquier automatismo docto, La ola que lee est? animada por una erudici?n amistosa y una alegr?a vehemente que arrasa con los lugares comunes de la cr?tica. Disfrazada de ensayo, Aira trafica una literatura feliz que milita por las vanguardias, defiende el trabajo diario del escritor, comparte sus obsesiones y destaca con admiraci?n el genio de ciertos autores: de Saer a Lamborghini, de Arlt a Puig, de Unica Z?rn a Witold Gombrowicz. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Formentor Award 2021

Reading C?sar Aira is always an amazing experience.

Arturo Garc?a Ramos, ABC

The result of an exhaustive and vast search in newspaper libraries and private collections by the researcher Mar?a Bel?n Riveiro, The Wave The Reads compiles reviews, notes and columns - scattered, varied and hitherto unreachable - that C?sar Aira published in magazines and newspapers in Argentina, Spain and Latin America for three decades starting in 1981, the year of his debut with Ema, la cautiva.

Oblivious to any learned automatism, The Wave That Reads is animated by a friendly erudition and a fiery joy that sweeps away the platitudes of criticism. Disguised as an essay, Aira traffics a happy literature that militates in the avant-gardes, defends the writer's daily work, shares his obsessions and highlights with admiration the genius of certain authors: from Saer to Lamborghini, from Arlt to Puig, from Unica Z?rn to Witold Gombrowicz.