The Musical Brain: And Other Stories

The Musical Brain: And Other StoriesA delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, Cesar Aira the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long The Musical Brain comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with his fuga hacia adelante or "flight forward" into the unknown, gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out of context plot lines, as well as thoughtful and passionate

A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, Cesar Aira the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long The Musical Brain comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with his fuga hacia adelante or "flight forward" into the unknown, gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out-of-context plot lines, as well as thoughtful and passionate takes on everyday reality. The title story, first published in the New Yorker, is the creme de la creme of this exhilarating collection."

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 03/03/2015
ISBN: 9780811220293
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 7.09h x 6.14w x 1.18d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 01/05/2015
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 20
New York Times Book Review 03/15/2015 pg. 10
New York Times Book Review 03/22/2015 pg. 26
New York Review of Books 08/13/2015 pg. 36