'Suddenly it hits you: you're not twenty; you're not young any more . . . and in the meantime, while you were thinking about something else, the world has changed.'
Birthday begins with a fiftieth birthday. It comes and goes without fanfare, but just a few months later, an apparently banal comment that reveals a gap in the author's knowledge of the world prompts him to sit down in a café and write. As he sifts through anecdotes and weaves memories together, Aira reflects on the origin of his beliefs and his incapacity to live, on literature understood from the author's and the reader's point of view, on death and the Last Judgement.
| ISBN: | 9781911508403 |
| Publication date: | 28th February 2019 |
| Author: | César Aira |
| Publisher: | And Other Stories |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Genres: |
Fiction in translation |
'Suddenly it hits you: you're not twenty; you're not young any more . . . and in the meantime, while you were thinking about something else, the world has changed.'Birthday begins with a fiftieth birthday. It comes and goes without fanfare, but just a few months later, an apparently banal comment that reveals a gap in the author's knowledge of the world prompts him to sit down in a café and write.
Birthday features in the following genres: Fiction in translation
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Birthday was written by César Aira and published by And Other Stories
Birthday has 128 pages
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