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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
César Aira
The book brings together two works by César Aira.
The novella An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000) tells the story of Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802–1858), a descendant of the illustrious Habsburg family of painters and one of the most fascinating foreign artists to visit Latin America in the first half of the nineteenth century. While traveling across the pampas, an unfortunate incident befalls the artist, radically transforming his life, body, worldview, and aesthetics.
The novella Dinner (2006) brings together horror and comedy, literature and television, cinema and fantasy. After having dinner at his friend’s house with his mother, an unsuccessful man returns home and starts watching television. A fantastic story unfolds on the screen through a live television broadcast from Pringles, the author’s hometown, where the city has been overrun by aggressive dead who have escaped from the cemetery.
ISBN 978-9939-98-502-2
Pages: 208
Cover: Hard
Language: Armenian
Format: 11×16.5
Published by “Antares”, 2026
Translated from Spanish by: Kara Chobanyan