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vcods's review against another edition
3.0
I can appreciate the beauty of the prose and the skill with which it was translated, but I never felt a narrative climax and was pulled this way and that with all the accumulating ancedotes.
alexlanz's review
This had a mellow tone and placid texture, yet a lot more referential.
drewsof's review
5.0
5+
Maybe my favorite Aira since the early days of reading him (although, who am I kidding, I love them all differently and that's kind of the point) -- it's like listening to someone fascinating just talk about being a child, a single unbroken stream of monologic consciousness. Aira, or his barely-fictional literary analog in this book, delivers something nearly totally realistic about his childhood in Pringles under the Perón government and how a person thinks about their parents as they grow up. Totally delightful, even though it's a bit light all told.
Maybe my favorite Aira since the early days of reading him (although, who am I kidding, I love them all differently and that's kind of the point) -- it's like listening to someone fascinating just talk about being a child, a single unbroken stream of monologic consciousness. Aira, or his barely-fictional literary analog in this book, delivers something nearly totally realistic about his childhood in Pringles under the Perón government and how a person thinks about their parents as they grow up. Totally delightful, even though it's a bit light all told.
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