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"A lampoon of our need for narrative. No one today does metafiction like Aira." -- Robyn Creswell - The Paris Review "An Aesop in Breton's clothing." -- Thomas Hachard - Los Angeles Review of Books "Outlandish B-movie fantasies are all part of the game. His best-known works are nonsensically hysterical. To love César Aira you must have a taste for the absurd, a tolerance for the obscurely philosophical, and a willingness to laugh out loud against your better judgment." -- Marcela Valdes - NPR Books "Once you start reading Aira, you don't want to stop." -- Roberto Bolańo "I get so absorbed by an Aira novel that upon finishing I dont remember anything. Its like having a complex cinematic dream that dissipates upon awakening." -- Patti Smith - The New York Times Book Review "Sui generis is really the only way to accurately describe César Aira. Hes by turns a realist, a magical realist and a surrealist and therefore not really any of them. Anything can happen in an Aira novel, and almost everything does." -- Tyler Malone - Los Angeles Times "To love the novels of César Aira you must have a taste for the absurd, a tolerance for the obscurely philosophical, and a willingness to laugh out loud against your better judgment." -- Marcela Valdes - NPR "Everything in Aira has that Mad Scientist feel to it." -- Jacob Mikanowski - The Millions "Astonishingturns Don Quixote into Picasso." -- Harper's "Airas works are like slim cabinets of wonder, full of unlikely juxtapositions. His unpredictability is masterful." -- Rivka Galchen "He summons up a genie who can do everything but fulfill our wishes." -- New York Review of Books