inkdrinkerreads 's review for:

Ghosts by César Aira

2.0

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Moments of beauty and dreamlike eccentricity aside, I found this Argentinian novella a disappointment. I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be a satire, or a ghost story, or a family drama and I understand that the book was dealing with boundaries and barriers and nebulously porous, indeterminate landscapes but it felt just a little too intangible for me. The intellectual tangents were unwelcome (I’m clearly just not clever enough) and though the prose was remarkably propulsive, the dense paragraphs and sentences became a little cumbersome.

However, the amount of ghostly genitalia on show was highly impressive! That’s my main takeaway I think...