“I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand,… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
“Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.” — César Aira Copy Share Image
“It is not that I am a genius or exceptionally gifted, not by any means. Quite the contrary. What Happened (I shall try to explain it) is that every mind is shaped by its own experiences and memories and knowledge, and what makes it unique is the grand total and extremely personal nature of the collection of all the data… — César Aira Copy Share
“A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I’m so great but because in order to get to me you have to… — César Aira Copy Share Image
“Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.” — César Aira Copy Share Image
“Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this… — César Aira Copy Share Image
Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others. — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
“Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.” — César Aira Copy Share Image
“Were the “pampas,” perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane?” — César Aira Copy Share Image
“En suma: si decía que estaba solo, no era más que porque no tenía con quién hablar.” — César Aira Copy Share Image
“After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book has, the… — César Aira Copy Share Image
“Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are making music,… — César Aira Copy Share Image
“So familiar that it didn't even register in the conversation; but it did reappear when I laid it out on the table of my… — César Aira Copy Share Image
