The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls) write by César Aira. This book was released on 2010-05-25. The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world. César is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds a pirate’s treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, César’s bid for world domination comes first and so he attends a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory: the world-renowned Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes. A comic science fiction fantasy of the first order, The Literary Conference is the perfect vehicle for César Aira’s take over of literature in the 21st century.
Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls)
Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls) write by Javier Marías. This book was released on 2010-02-24. Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruibérriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?
Dinner
Dinner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dinner write by César Aira. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Dinner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Was it a nightmare—the result of a bad case of indigestion—or did something truly scary happen after dinner in the Argentine town of Coronel Pringles? One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off his valuable antiques, the host shows his guests old windup toys and takes them to admire an enormous doll. Back at home, the bachelor decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the newscaster finds herself reporting about the dead rising from their graves, leaving the cemetery, and sucking the blood of the living—all somehow, disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party.
On Booze (New Directions Pearls)
On Booze (New Directions Pearls) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Booze (New Directions Pearls) write by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book was released on 2011-06-28. On Booze (New Directions Pearls) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet! “First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays “The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush — with quite a hangover.
Birthday
Birthday - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birthday write by César Aira. This book was released on 2019-02-26. Birthday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Birthday is among the very best of Aira—it will surprise readers new to his work, and will deeply satisfy his many fans Before you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing—and then, just as suddenly you realize that you are fifty years old. Aira had anticipated his fiftieth—a time when he would not so much recall years past as look forward to what lies ahead—but the birthday came and went without much ado. It was only months later, while having a somewhat banal conversation with his wife about the phases of the moon, that he realized how little he really knows about his life. In Birthday Aira searches for the events that were significant to him during his first fifty years. Between anecdotes ,and memories, the author ponders the origins of his personal truths, and meditates on literature meant as much for the writer as for the reader, on ignorance, knowledge, and death. Finally, Birthday is a little sad, in a serene, crystal-clear kind of way, which makes it even more irresistible.
