La ola que lee

The result of an exhaustive and extensive search in newspaper libraries and private collections by the researcher María Belén Riveiro, La ola que lee compiles reviews, notes and columns -scattered, varied and so far untouchable- that César Aira published in magazines and newspapers of the Argentina, Spain and Latin America for three decades starting in 1981, the year of his debut with Ema, la cautiva. Oblivious to any learned automatism, The Wave That Reads is animated by a friendly erudition and a fiery joy that sweeps away the platitudes of criticism.