Ema the Captive
Ema The Captive, César Aira's second novel, is perhaps closest in style to his popular An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and The HareIn nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (deprivations and rapes prevail along the way), yet the real story commences once Ema arrives at the fort, where she takes on a succession of lovers among the soldiers and Indians, leading to a brave and grand entrepreneurial experiment. As is usual with Aira…
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Weitere Autoren: Andrews, Chris (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2603-5
- EAN: 9780811226035
- Produktnummer: 34248465
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 755 KB
Über den Autor
Nominated for a Neustadt award and the Man Booker International Prize, César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. He has published at least one hundred books and recently created a limited edition, Valise,” for the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
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