Description
A man becomes consumed by a single object: the art magazine *Artforum*. In a series of sharply observed, often comic vignettes, he hunts for missing issues through bookstores and back alleys, chasing rumors, confronting mishaps, and letting the pursuit of the magazine blur into a larger question of what we think we’re seeking when we seek art. Translated by Katherine Silver, César Aira’s slender, autofictional work turns books and magazines into “superobjects”—specialized carriers of desire that can both promise meaning and expose how fragile our understanding is. With Aira’s signature momentum and imaginative play, this is a story about obsession, cultural longing, and the strange vortex where collecting becomes a way of imagining oneself.
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paperback
New Directions
Published Mar 31, 2020
80 pages
ISBN: 9780811229265
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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