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New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world.

César is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds a pirate’s treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, César’s bid for world domination comes first and so he attends a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory: the world-renowned Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes. A comic science fiction fantasy of the first order, The Literary Conference is the perfect vehicle for César Aira’s take over of literature in the 21st century.

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Nominated for a Neustadt award and the Man Booker International Prize, César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. He has published at least one hundred books and recently created a limited edition, “Valise,” for the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. 

KATHERINE SILVER is an award-winning liter- ary translator and the codirector of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC). Her translations include works by Ce´sar Aira, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Jose´ Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, Jorge Franco, and Marti´n Ada´n, among others.

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As any proper mad scientist should, the narrator of prolific (70 books and counting) Argentinian writer Aira's antic novella wants to conquer the world, to effect which he has mastered portable cloning. Because money would help, he solves the mystery of the Macuto Line in Mexico and, claiming the treasure at the line's end in the gulf, proceeds to a literary conference in Venezuela, of which he and Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes are guests. His scheme is to clone a great genius—Fuentes, that would be—and thereby realize his fiendish ambitions, somehow. Of course, things go awry, and huge blue worms descend on the conference's host city. This not-unlikely-for-the-movies scenario is interestingly wrinkled by the fact that the mad scientist and Aira himself are one and the same (that's why the former is feted as the latter by the conference). Because fiction writers are often conflated with their protagonists, and actors with their roles, and writers and actors both may envy their characters' adventures, the story comes by its self-reflexiveness honestly. Hilariously, too. --Ray Olson

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  • PublisherNew Directions
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 0811218783
  • ISBN 13 9780811218788
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages96
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