#103 The Last Great Writer

Dead Ricardo Piglia, in 2017, and before Saer and Fogwill, César Aira is undoubtedly the “best Argentine writer alive”, a terrible label that Aira himself would reject. It is possible that he is also the last great Argentine writer. Not because there are no writers publishing good books (some should be), but because the figure of the great writer, that monument of enormous social prestige, oracle on all subjects, interpreter of our deep impulses…