Cesar Aira's discontinuities

Aira is a libertarian and an experimental writer. Libertarian, not because he promulgates anti-authoritarian ideas in his novels - which have almost no explicit political content (surprisingly, given that he began publishing in 1975) - but because, for him, genuine literature is a space of free play. Experimental, not because his novels display avant-garde credentials - most of them seem at first to be rather demure - but because each one results from an open-ended and highly unpredictable experience of writing.