César Aira's newest novella chronicles his love affair with the magazine Artforum, to which he ascribes almost magical qualities. Our reviewer says it's a giddy, self-indulgent but delightful read.
What do people do with their old magazines? I've often wondered why it is that the décor mavens of the world have not devised a clever way for me to show off my oldthe way I can my books. Piled on top of one another, they droop and ultimately slide right off. It's a nightmare.has a good solution: A pricey binder in which one can place old copies by curling strings around the centerfolds. The binder, then, goes on the bookshelf.
The anxious possessor of these magazines realizes early on in the novella that it has begun to rain, and he has left a window open next to a pile of magazines. He rushes into the living room."In a way, I had already foreseen the worst," he professes. On top of the pile, he sees a"sphere the size of a soccer ball ... The ball was the, its surface was the cover ... It was cold and wet to the touch, very heavy, despite being full of water.
Aira is unencumbered. He does what he does, and what we receive is giddy, unquestionably self-indulgent, and yet absolutely perfect.has a strange property: All the other magazines are, somehow, perfectly dry!"had sacrificed itself to save the other magazines, like a magical and heroic soldier stepping out in front of his platoon under a barrage of firepower and receiving all the bullets in his body without letting a single one hit his companions.
What a sentence! Is there any other writer who can get away with such overshot, brazen hyperbole? Aira is unencumbered. He does what he does, and what we receive is giddy, unquestionably self-indulgent, and yet absolutely perfect."I woke up from my reverie staring at the sphericalas a martyr for pages on end."Did it love me?" he asks. What a thought! Did the Eiffel Tower
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