Bibframe Work

Title

Artforum

Type

Text

Monograph

Contribution

Aira, César, 1949- (author)

Silver, Katherine (translator)

Genre Form

Fiction (LCGFT)

Language

English (eng)

Classification

LCC: PQ7798.1.I7 A8313 2020 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

DDC: 863/.64 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23)

Content

text (txt)

Note

Includes translation or is translation

original text: : Spanish

language: Translated into English from Spanish.

Summary

"Artforum is certainly one of César Aira's most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collect Artforum magazine, this is not about art so much as it is about passionate obsession. At first we follow our hapless collector from magazine shops to used bookstores hunting for copies of Artforum. A friend alerts him to a copy somewhere and he obsesses about actually going to get it-will the shop be open, will the copy already be sold? Finally he takes out a subscription, but then it never comes, so he hounds the mailman. There's the day his stash of Artforums gets rained on, but only one absorbs the water. And interspersed is a wacky chapter about the mystery of the broken clothespins. "How weird." "How crazy.""-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Aira, César, 1949- Artforum

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Date: 2019-10-03

Agent: United States, Library of Congress

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Date: 2024-09-07T11:10:06

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