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Aira, César

Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIR

Aira, César

Summary: "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIR

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