The little Buddhist monk & the proof
By: César Aira ; translated by Nick Caistor
Contributors: Caistor, Nick, translator; Aira, César, 1949-; Aira, César, 1949-
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780811221122
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fiction; Buddhist monks; Lesbians
Other titles: Proof
Work titles: Novellas
Description: The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit ("Wannafuck?" is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. These two Aira works are as different as night and day. Nevertheless, sex, identity, and modern day economics figure deeply in both of these fast-paced, edgy fictions.
Notes: Translated from the Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Little Buddhist Monk --; title: The Proof.