By César Aira

A middle-class, directionless ox of a tender guy who is helping the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown draws the eye of a corrupt policeman who might use a person together with blameless childrens to wreck a drug ring he believes is working within the slum. by way of the writer of An Episode within the lifetime of a panorama Painter.

summary: A middle-class, directionless ox of a tender guy who is helping the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown draws the eye of a corrupt policeman who might use somebody together with blameless children to damage a drug ring he believes is working within the slum. by means of the writer of An Episode within the lifetime of a panorama Painter

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This destitute city within the city might have been subject to laws of its own. But the layout did seem to be rather wasteful, considering how fiercely space was saved in every other way. The overcrowding was incredible; the shacks were absurdly small and crammed together, for reasons that apparently applied to shantytowns everywhere: these settlements sprang up in strictly limited spaces, and the population was continually growing because of unplanned reproduction as well as migration from the inland provinces and neighboring countries.

Maxi’s was linear, an adventure open to improvisation, like a path disappearing into the distance. The inspector’s enterprise, by contrast, resembled the deciphering of a structure. ” As soon as Cabezas began to take an interest in Maxi’s comings and goings, they constituted a case in his mind. Which meant that nothing could be left unexplained, and each explanation would have to be linked to others, to form a system, which in turn would have to be connected to other systems, until the whole of society was covered.

In contrast with the blaze outside, the interiors were dim. Up until then he’d thought that the scavengers were ashamed to let him come right up to their dwellings; but now he began to think that they’d been acting out of kindness: noticing how sleepy he was, they had been letting him go. He resolved to be more alert and extended his siestas; in vain, because nightfall still had the same effect on him. Nevertheless, by hiding his tiredness, he was able to get closer, and finally, one momentous night, he finally crossed the shantytown’s perimeter, and ventured just a few steps into that enchanted kingdom of unstinting light.

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