An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

César Aira2006
A fictional account based on the life and work of nineteenth-century German painter Johan Moritz Rugendas traces his visit to Argentina for the purpose of achieving in art a "physiognomic totality" of his scientific vision, a quest during which he pays an enormous price for his success. Original.
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