The White Review Short Story Prize, sponsored by RCW, is an annual short story competition for emerging writers. The prize awards £2,500 to the best piece of short fiction...
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...