César Aira, in this timely reissue of a novel of his from eight years ago, offers us to go up and down the slide of literature playing with a princess from old stories, who, being the Spring Princess, becomes the center of a fable. And being a fable, she has a great enemy, General Winter, who wants to annex his spring territory to Siberia so that the world is finally gray and cold. Until Winter’s army arrives, with Little Christmas Tree, his lieutenant, a general with all the medals hanging on him, Spring was dedicated to translating sub-literature, junk novels, for editors dedicated to pirating books, to maintain his palace. and the staff of her small kingdom, including her housekeeper, Wanda Toscanini, daughter of the famous director, widow of the pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had been left like a mummy in Paris and who she will bring when the fighting approaches. There is also a young castaway, Picnic, somewhat of an environmentalist, who arrives on the island to relive old confrontations. He is a homosexual French naturalist who is so in love with the princess that he believes she is the old tomboy Wanda. There is a little blind sheep, and there are the talking ice creams.
“Princess Spring” is a fantastic journey into the world of narrative. You can remember Carroll, Calvino, Vian, Perec, but it is pure Aira. An Aira that, like other times, opens spaces to think critically about what literature is, what it proposes to us, what it is for, in a short extraordinary essay that has constant echoes within the same novel that is read, without one Stop being captivated by the constant unexpected incidents. After more than a hundred books, a repeated Argentine candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Aira does not stop finding new ways to display his imagination, his mastery and his difference.
Source: Ambito
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