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An art critic and auction house employee takes on the role of art world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation as she searches for a master forger in the Buenos Aires art world who has achieved legendary status.

"In The Linden Tree, the narrator, who could be Aira himself (born the same year, in the same place, a writer who is now also living in Buenos Aires) writes down his childhood memories" --

Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell, each surrenders to the other something...

"Whenever I'm in survival mode I find myself magnetised by museums and galleries, like people running for air raid shelters in wartime." The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled...

La edición conmemorativa del 50 aniversario de RayuelaIncluye, en exclusiva, el mapa del París de Rayuela y la historia de la creación de la novela contada a través de las cartas de Julio Cortázar«Contranovela», «crónica de una locura», «el agujero negro de un enorme embudo», «un feroz sacudón por las solapas», «un grito de alerta», «una especie de bomba atómica», «una llamada al desorden necesario», «una gigantesca humorada»,...