Some excerpts: To celebrate my return to Goodreads after one week of business travel I will write my first review with pictures. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). But I wasn't all that moved by the monstrous other-worldly trip-off in the spirit-quest for art, or for its sake. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Rodón By: Published on 1998 by This Book was ranked at 35 by Google Books for keyword An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter. To be a landscape painter means to be present at the feast of the nature…. It appears to have been written in one day (November 24, 1995), takes about 2 hours to read leisurely and with contemplation, and is the result of the author letting his thoughts amble along in writing that one day until evening, when he declared it a book and was don. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2013. Speaking of other reviews, much better ones for, this book is like a goddamn greek myth in its perfect symmetry and simplicity. He was raised in Philadelphia and New York City, surrounded by poets and painters. An Episode in the Life of A Landscape Painter (Book) : Aira, César Nearl. Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Starts out in a digressive historical mode that's reminiscent of W.G. This book is very good. It's really some of the best writing I've read. Aira examines the depths of history, the meaning of repetition, reproductions and its role in art, compensation, and much more, and in the context of a very specific, relatable person and his predicaments. 1 of 2 "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter" by C sar Aira Show More Show Less 2 of 2 "The Obstacles" by Eloy Urroz Show More Show Less. At 87 pages, it is more a novella than a novel. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Cesar Aira's An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter captures a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas.Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of … If you've ever studied 19th century landscape painting, you know what this looks like. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. This very short 1996 novella by Argentinian writer César Aira is easy and enjoyable to read but hard to figure out afterwards. He is twice hit by lightning, then dragged by his terrified horse. Did you set an extremely ambitious Reading Challenge goal back in January? It appears to have been written in one day (November 24, 1995), takes about 2 hours to read leisurely and with contemplation, and is the result of the author letting his thoughts amble along in writing that one day until evening, when he declared it a book and was done. César Aira (born on February 23, 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine writer and translator, considered by many as one of the leading exponents of Argentine contemporary literature, in spite of his limited public recognition. And, like the Clint Eastwood film "Million-Dollar Baby," it starts out as one story and turns into quite another story midway through. I have no idea how much of this is surreal, metaphysically inflected short novel is true, but it's gripping and superbly composed throughout. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter . I am left asking "What on earth was that all about?" I thought the translation read so well that I bought the original to compare texts, confirming its high quality. If you like Bolano or Borges or Carpentier and haven't read Aira, try this book. In fact, the entire book is less than 90 pages, though it. An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. In fact, the entire book is less than 90 pages, though it tells a story that could be told in 500 pages. Aira appears to be little known in Europe - or rather certainly in the UK. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Sebald, then seamlessly incorporates breathless action sequences and genuine grotesquerie while ruminating on the nature of art and perspective. This is such a tiny gem. Perhaps because there were other "wholes," or because the "whole" made up by the speaker and his personal world rotates like a planet, and the combined effect of rotation and orbital movement is to keep certain sides of certain planets permanently hidden.”, http://ndbooks.com/book/an-episode-in-the-life-of-a-landscape-painter, Goodreads Members Suggest: Favorite Very Quick Reads. There is this ominous sense of space at work throughout the book, of the physical presence of the blasted, Argentinian pampas which is somehow always right in front of you, yet also delicately remote, somehow just past perception. Aira is a strange and somewhat scattered novelist -- his method guarantees he relinquishes control over his forms, and sometimes, as in "How I Became a Nun," he helps his narrative become less linear -- but his pace, his wit, his descriptions, and even his philosophic asides are tremendous. a painter traveling through the mountains and plains of argentina is struck by lightning and turned into something of a freak. I will expound later when I have had more time to run this reading through my mind's-eye filter. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Something in the tone of the introduction of this novel, where Bolano says Aira is the author "one of the five best stories" he can remember," "four memorable novels", and "one of the three or four best writers working in Spanish today," was pretty amusing to me. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira was first published in 2000. Please try again. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter . 1965–76 An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Which might be why the incredible way he curls sentences about art and seeing around and through each other works so well. More specifically, to paint the landscape by seeing "the processes of growth operative in all forms of life." Aira writes from an odd little world that is somehow completely his own. Aira is a writer of style, wit, immensely gifted descriptive prose, and a mind that pays homage to magical realism without mimicking it. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. immediately after finishing its perfect ending. Something in the tone of the introduction of this novel, where Bolano says Aira is the author "one of the five best stories" he can remember," "four memorable novels", and "one of the three or four best writers working in Spanish today," was pretty amusing to me. With a contribution by Roberto Bolaño. Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. “Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.”, “This was one of those situations in which the whole is not enough. It's a little like the Bartlebooth sections in Perec's. Refresh and try again. This is no more than a novelette and easily readable at one sitting. Was it in reaction against Humboldt, therefore, that Rugendas sought out the rugged mountains and barren plains? Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Part travelogue, part meditation on art, this brief, increasingly riveting fictionalized history by Argentinean author Aira (How I Became a Nun) reinvents German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas's ill-fated 1837 South American journey. And has this, uh, unprecedented year gotten completely in the way of... To see what your friends thought of this book, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, In a moronic attempt to get a jump on my 2111 Reading Challenge, I opted for the slimmest title on my TBR list—a novella of 87 pages that should have taken only moments from a day spent reading other people’s reviews and wishing I had more time to read the books they’ve reviewed. A tiny, weird, 87 page masterpiece. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira My rating: 4 of 5 stars With very precise language the author crafts a rich and even mysterious story about a painter's encounter with the Argentine frontier. According to Cesar Aira: "His mission was one that, a hundred years later, would have fallen to a photographer. Basically my definition of a five-star novel(la? Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Three stars means "I liked it" so I guess that is good enough for me. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter in particular has been cited as an example of his mastery over the novella form and representative of his style and interests. This is just one of the solutions for you to be successful. Here's a description of the landscape that Rugendas saw, accordin. Its immediacy ran the length of the novel maintaining its tightened grip to the last word.

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