Varamo
By: César Aira ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
Contributors: Andrews, Chris
Edition: 1st American paperback ed.
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780811217415
Subjects: Authorship; Poets; Poetry; Fiction
Description: "Varamo concerns a day in the life of a hapless government employee. After being paid by the ministry in counterfeit money, our unfortunate bureaucrat, Varamo, wanders around all night, then sits down and writes the most celebrated masterwork of modern Central American poetry, The Song of the Virgin Boy. What is odd is that Varamo, at fifty years old, 'hadn't previously written one sole verse, nor had it ever occurred to him to write one.'"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "A New Directions Paperbook Original."