by César Aira · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789723714098
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«Um Episódio na Vida do Pintor Viajante» is the novel by César Aira published in 2009 by Assírio & Alvim in paperback (96 pages, in Portuguese).
The novel recounts the stay of Johann Moritz Rugendas, a German painter and traveller, in Chile and Argentina during the nineteenth century. Accompanied by another painter, he crosses the Andes and continues across the pampa with the intention of reaching Buenos Aires; an episode that will transform his life, his gaze and his way of understanding art.
The Portuguese edition is translated by José Agostinho Baptista. The original title, «Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero», was published in 2000.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in nineteenth-century Latin America and fictionalised biographies of artists.
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.
