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Birthday
- Title
- Birthday / César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
- Author
- Aira, César, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 20-31 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Andrews, Chris, 1962-
- Description
- 80 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- "Having just turned fifty years old Aira returns to a café in his hometown, Coronel Pringles, to write this book which consists of a series of short chapters meditating on and searching for the events that were significant to him during the past fifty years. Between anecdotes, and memories, the author ponders the origins of his truths, about literature meant as much for the writer as for the reader, about ignorance, knowledge, and death"--
- Uniform Title
- Cumpleaños. English
- Alternative Title
- Cumpleaños.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Originally published in Spain as Cumpleaños by DeBOLS!LLO.
- "A New Directions Paperbook Original"
- Call Number
- JFC 20-31
- ISBN
- 9780811219099
- 0811219097
- LCCN
- 2018039770
- OCLC
- 1041893913
- Author
- Aira, César, 1949- author.
- Title
- Birthday / César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Andrews, Chris, 1962- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 20-31