Following a record number of entries, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for this year’s Short Story Prize. The selected stories will be judged by Chris Power, Sophie...
César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. His many books include How I Became a Nun(1993), The Literary Conference(2006), The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira(2012), The Conversations(2014) and The Musical Brain, forthcoming from New Directions in 2015.
The hypothesis underlying this study is that human beings act in strict accordance with an instinctive programme, which governs all of our actions, however...
