How far do we accompany the narrator in his twists, in his unexpected twists? The same goes for certain Aira novels (not all). In this sense, The Band of Poles is a risky novel in which Jeanmaire balances on the ledge of plausibility. It is a novel that could be labeled as experimental if we did not associate the experimental with something a little less entertaining or fast and if labeling were not a practice that should be avoided. That is the set of facts that punctuate the plot, and as is already inferred in this very brief summary,Ĭombines and remixes various genres and tones: police, social realism -the question of classes is central in the text–, a touch of delirium, streaks of metafiction.

Ĭomplete the picture of the novel Borges, a clairvoyant newsstand who, when one of the boys passes by, solves for them what is going to happen with some vaguely hermetic phrase that they will have to decode. Supposedly, the plan would consist of changing the world for the better, to use the abstract and somewhat general terms with which she conveys it to him.īut we know, the readers (they, the seven 'Poles' of the group, don't know it), that Yesi is carrying a pending revenge, which is at the origin of his identity, and that perhaps the plan has to do with that personal repair. It is the story of a group of young people from a town in Buenos Aires who gather around Yesi –a hellish red-haired woman who has everyone a little hypnotized with her beauty but also with her mental speed– to carry out a plan that only she he knows, and that he will reveal little by little and with suspense. Martín Kohan, for example, is in that group, and also Then there are authors who did not publish as much but over time they built a bibliography that already exceeds twenty titles In Argentine literature, César Aira takes first place in reviews where this inclination to graphomania is mentioned, although in number of pages per year there are others, such as Martín Caparrós and even Daniel Guebel, who may take a few heads off. There are authors whose prolific condition is always underlined

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