by César Aira · Emecé · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789500439749
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In a distant future where books are considered obsolete, a group of teenage siblings delve into a game called Total Reality. This game becomes their main activity, consuming their days. The game consists of virtually moving to a world inhabited by an intelligent species and declaring war on them, with the aim of annihilating that species. The father, concerned and narrator of the story, an anachronistic character who still dedicates time to reading, censors this practice of his children, considering it barbaric and dangerous. This dystopian novel, originally published in 2000, has become a cult book within César Aira's work. This new edition, revised and corrected by the author, is available to readers.
César Aira is an Argentine writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentine literature. He has published over a hundred short books of stories, novels and essays. He has lectured at the University of Buenos Aires, on Copi and Arthur Rimbaud, and at the University of Rosario on Constructivism and Stéphane Mallarmé, and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.
