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Ghosts (New Directions Paperbook Book 1133) (English Edition) Kindle版

英語版 César Aira (著), Chris Andrews (翻訳) 形式: Kindle版
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The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published by New Directions.


"On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply television images to all the floors. On the edge of the dish, a sharp metallic edge on which no bird would have dared to perch, three completely naked men were sitting, with their faces turned up to the midday sun; no one saw them, of course." — from Ghosts



Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.
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    141ページ
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    New Directions
  5. 発売日
    2009/2/24
  6. ファイルサイズ
    1944 KB
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A languorous, surreal atmosphere of baking heat and quietly menacing shadows... puts one in mind of a painting by de Chirico.-- "The New Yorker"

Aira's literary significance, like that of many other science fiction writers, comes from how he pushes us to question the porous line between fact and fantasy, to see it not only as malleable in history, but also blurred in the everyday. The engrossing power of his work, though, comes from how he carries out these feats: with the inexhaustible energy and pleasure of a child chasing after imaginary enemies in the park.-- "Los Angeles Review of Books"

Ghosts has some serious bite, for such a little book. Within it Aira likens literature to a building that has never been built, to an architect's dream. And though he never comes out and says it, I get the sense that for him the reader is always a ghost, haunting the unbuilt and the imagined, flying through time to attend to the party on the page.--Emily Keeler "The Rumpus"

Utterly astonishing.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"

Wonderful... Ghosts is an incitement to the sensuality of thought, of wonder, of questioning, of anticipation.--Thomas McGonigle "Los Angeles Times"

Once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop.--Roberto Bolaño

著者について

The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.

CÉSAR AIRA was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He taught at the University of Buenos Aires (about Copi and Rimbaud) and at the University of Rosario (Constructivism and Mallarmé), and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. Perhaps one of the most prolific writers in Argentina, and certainly one of the most talked about in Latin America, Aira has published more than 100 books to date in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, which have been translated for France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Romania, Russia, and the United States. One novel, La prueba, has been made into a feature film, and How I Became a Nun was chosen as one of Argentina's ten best books. Besides essays and novels Aira writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In addition to winning the 2021 Formentor Prize, he has received a Guggenheim scholarship, and was shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos prize and the Booker International Prize.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007CO9EN6
  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ New Directions (2009/2/24)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2009/2/24
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ファイルサイズ ‏ : ‎ 1944 KB
  • Text-to-Speech（テキスト読み上げ機能） ‏ : ‎ 有効
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ 有効にされていません
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ 有効
  • 付箋メモ ‏ : ‎ Kindle Scribeで
  • 本の長さ ‏ : ‎ 141ページ
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5つ星のうち4.0 Four Stars
2017年5月28日に英国でレビュー済み
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Simple, compelling, story that burns steadily to its conclusion.
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Nate J
5つ星のうち5.0 Light, Surreal and Delightful
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Ghosts is one of my favorite reads this year. It's light and easy to read, delightfully unsettling and strangely hopeful. Aira writes in Spanish, but this translation is excellent and you won't feel you're missing out by not reading in Spanish. I'm not going to give away the plot, but I will say it keeps you engaged right to the last page and it's all about two amazing parties and a girl who has to choose between them. Pair that with some magically aged wine, and what more could one ask for?
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Eric Treanor
5つ星のうち4.0 An Allegory of Lost Innocence
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All fiction is allegorical--which might explain why I don't read much fiction anymore. One tires, after a certain age, of lessons.

Most contemporary novelists try to disguise their allegories in the centuries-old conventions of realism. They pretend to be wholly--not selectively--reporting the world. But César Aira can't be bothered. So my principle reaction to Ghosts was relief: at least this guy isn't pretending. He's an unapologetic child of Kafka--or, more to the point, he shows us that we all are, fancy literary embellishments aside.

But I didn't only feel relief; I also felt like I'd been returned to fiction as it sounded when I was a child. We're trained early to look for the lessons--the moral--in stories. The history of my life as a reader can be summarized as a slow transition from explicit to implicit allegory. And now back. In this case, it's a happy return.

Aira's topics in Ghosts (which are really one topic) are the birth of desire, the end of innocence, the death in life that goes by the name eros. The book evokes that death with levity and precision. Like Kafka, Aria is never clever. He is compassionate, lucid, and funny. A girl in her mid-teens lives among ghosts, all of them men, naked phantasms covered in dust. She's lived among them for months, seen them floating about--but one day she actually sees them. And that's the difference, right? To really see a body. That's the moment when everything changes. This little book evokes that moment--when, to put it conventionally, a girl becomes a woman--exquisitely.

I read the book at a leisurely pace, in part because I was re-learning how to read like a kid. Sometimes I felt a kind of aching impatience to know what was going to happen, what the lesson would be. It might take me a while to once again experience that impatient ache as pleasure.

But among the book's many indisputable pleasures: a fantastic essay, dead in the middle of the book, on architecture; and the cast of characters, a family of immigrant Chileans living in Buenos Aires. Wonderful: people I love, a city I love, both evoked with generosity and intelligence.

Chris Andrews' translation is, as always, superb. Heartily recommended.
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Donald W. Hines
5つ星のうち5.0 Argentinian life brought closer to home
2014年10月4日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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Read this in October. Classic Ghost story will have you turning your head at little noises.
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Linda Linguvic
5つ星のうち1.0 A disagreeable book that made no sense to me
2012年8月22日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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This 1990 Argentinian book was the choice of my International reading group at my local bookstore. I read the whole book but wasn't able to make the discussion. This is a short book, merely 139 pages long and frankly, I suffered through all of them. The book is set in Argentina and tells the story of a Chilean immigrant family who are living in the top floor of a partly constructed luxury apartment house. Their teenage daughter meets some ghosts that are living in the building and the result is tragedy

The book is well written and is an international sensation but frankly, I hated every word of it and would never have finished it if I thought I would be absent from the discussion. Sometimes these discussions give me an appreciation of the book but because I wasn't able to attend that evening I am left with only the memory of slogging through a disagreeable book that didn't make much sense to me.
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