A review by beepbeepbooks
El tilo by César Aira

3.0

Beautiful! Even at his most auto-biographical Aira continues to delight and elate the reader with his maze-like prose, a prose that never is comfortable stopping and always is able to get out of itself until the world eventually collapses. These tiny stories tell a lot about the town Aira grew up in and the era in which he lived (if we can take him for his word, which we aren't always certain) and his descriptions of the people and places around him create such an atmosphere of potential that he continually tries to assign a logic (perhaps not a rational logic, but some sort of logic) to everything, in varying success. Again I affirm he is one of the finest living writers, if not for his brevity then for his plenitude