A review by nealadolph
The Hare by César Aira

2.0

An unbelievable romp through the plains and mountains of Argentina. A story of an Englishman searching for some Hare which is reported to fly when it is incapable of making an escape by running. It's a legend. Not a believable legend for the Englishman who seems just as interested in disproving - he is a naturalist, after all - as he is in discovering it. In the plot, he goes on many different adventures - one into a cavern, one into a war, one into a night-time raid, one onto a mountaintop. It isn't exactly clear why any of these adventures are of any importance, and this reader felt as though he was being strung along some underdeveloped storyline from the moment the Englishman naturalist left the first encampment in search of a kidnapped chiefdom. At times it was nice to be strung along. Even pleasant. Even entertaining. But it wasn't often enough to redeem this work. In the end it was unfulfilling.