Aira, Cesar

The Literary Conference

New Directions:
New York: 2010
First American edition, Paperback, New,
90 pp
Cover artwork by: Rodrigo Corral

We couldn’t resist this: “Cesar is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn: he is also a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds pirate treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, Cesar’s bid for world domination comes first and so he hurries to attend a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory: the world-renowned Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. A comic science fiction fantasy of the first order, THE LITERARY CONFERENCE is the perfect vehicle for Cesar Aira’s takeover of 21st-century literature.” Quite awesome.   #43887