![]() ![]() ![]() Two companions follow him, and the three of them journey through the jungle, talking cyclically about nothing in particular at first, then politics. The book follows a 19th-century English naturalist, Clarke, who has organized a hunt for the Legibrerian hare, a bunny rabbit that can fly. His latest book, like much of his other works, is an allegory written with a straight face-it is tempting to take it literally. His 70 or so novels have made him one of the most celebrated authors in Latin America. ![]() Since 1997, César Aira has been translated into English from his native Argentinian at the rate of about a book a year, a prolific task that has already given us stories of a retired miracle cure doctor, a broke Panamanian government employee who ends up writing the greatest of all works of Central American poetry, and a New Year’s Eve dinner party held by a lonely teenage girl and a group of lumbering ghosts. ![]()
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