La Sala / The Room [Spanish]

By César Aira

La novela francesa de C sar Aira, in dita hasta ahora, sobre un extra o cine en Par s y un electricista con sue os de escritor.

Me fascina la capacidad que tiene para contar sus propias historias, ya sean f bulas pol ticas o elaboradas bromas inventadas, cargadas de la m s pura filosof a . - Patti Smith

En el centro de Par s ha abierto un peque o cine en el que incesantemente entra y sale una compacta feligres a de j venes coreanos. Qu es lo que pasa all dentro? El misterio atrae a un electricista desocupado que se ha mudado desde la periferia a una buhardilla para realizar el sue o de escribir. Evasivo e inesperado, ese anhelo har que deserte de su clase y renuncie a sus convicciones ideol gicas para terminar involucrado en el registro ficcional y minucioso del negocio turbio que --en paralelo-- desarrollan los administradores del lugar.

Escrita originalmente en franc s en 1996, ahora traducida por el autor, La Sala recupera, entre la nostalgia y la parodia, la atm sfera de las breves novelas que publicaba en esos a os ditions Minuit, entre ellas las de Marguerite Duras, que aqu hace m s de una aparici n espectral.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

C sar Aira's previously unpublished French novel about a strange cinema in Paris and an electrician who dreams of becoming a writer.

"I am fascinated by his ability to tell his own stories, whether they are political fables or elaborate invented jokes, loaded with the purest philosophy." --Patti Smith

In the center of Paris, a small cinema has opened, where a compact congregation of young Koreans incessantly come and go. What goes on inside? The mystery attracts an unemployed electrician who has moved from the suburbs to a garret to pursue his dream of writing. Elusive and unexpected, this desire will cause him to abandon his social class and renounce his ideological convictions, only to end up involved in the fictional and meticulous recording of the shady business that--in parallel--the administrators of the place are developing.

Originally written in French in 1996 and now translated by the author, The Room recaptures, between nostalgia and parody, the atmosphere of the short novels published in those years by ditions Minuit, including those by Marguerite Duras, who makes more than one spectral appearance here.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8439747071
• ISBN13: 9788439747079
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Literatura Random House
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.