A review by drewsof
Varamo by César Aira

5.0

With each 'new' Aira I read, I find myself revising my understanding of the rest of his work - an excellent turn of events, to be sure. This may be the most accessible and modest of Aira's work, although it is still totally cuckoo-bananas in terms of the flight-forward innovation on display. But much of this book turns towards the concepts of writing, what it means to be a writer, how one derives inspiration, and even a mid-novel digression on how to tell a story. It's neat to see Aira talking about his craft in the midst of his craft, especially in a book that is (ostensibly) about a man who inexplicably wrote Central America's most famous poem one night, having never written a single word prior to that moment.

Anyway, I love César Aira and so too should you.