César Aira ~

New Directions, 2015

If Julio Cortazar and Italo Calvino had a literary child

 (where's this going?)

 it just might be César Aira.

Have a look into The Musical Brain (New Directions 2015)

 and tell me what you think.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/books/review/the-musical-brain-stories-by-cesar-aira.html

http://www.thenation.com/article/unmanageable-realities-cesar-aira/