Cesar Aira quotes

Cesar Aira quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.”
-- Cesar Aira

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“There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.”
-- Cesar Aira

Source : César Aira (2009). “Ghosts”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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“The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.”
-- Cesar Aira

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“Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.”
-- Cesar Aira

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“A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures...All three of them were equally lost.”
-- Cesar Aira

Source : César Aira (2013). “The Hare”, p.239, New Directions Publishing

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