A major collection of short fiction by a master of literary mischief. These fifteen tales are erotic, poetic, and, often, hilarious. "The title story of Arias-Misson's THE MAN WHO WALKED ON AIR is emblematic of the fiction collection. Ruminative, cultivated, formally venturesome, smoothly (but not slickly) written, and erotic—a nuanced eroticism that takes deliciously improbable turns. A daring collection in its way, yet always engaging." --Harold Jaffe "Augustus, Alain Arias-Misson's alter ego in the book, levitates when he has an erection. Arias-Misson levitates when he writes. Take the hand he offers you. He will lead you above the coarseness and banality of much of contemporary writing to a delightfully innocent world of erotic fantasies." --Yuriy Tarnawsky

The Man Who Walked On Air & Other Tales Of Innocence

Literature & Fiction

Arias-Misson, Alain

Short Stories & Anthologies

BLACK SCAT BOOKS

The narrator and a select team of real-life friends, eminent Spanish philosopher, Ignacio Gomez de Liaño, German shamanic artist/poet, Carlfriedrich Claus, Dada erudite, Parisian Marc Dachy and the sophisticated American novelist, Wal­ter Abish, along with assorted cartoon figures, Tintin and Captain Haddock, investigate bizarre sightings of historic Maya personages and the apparition of ghostly Maya pyramids in the streets of Manhattan. They discover that the bloodcurdling Dragon Queen and her marauding, illegitimate, campy son and S&M mate, Smoking Rabbit, who introduced bloody "axe" warfare in the Petén Penin­sula in the seventh century, are pushing through the time-boundaries of ancient Tikal. The legends and exploits of the latter are bizarrely paralleled in the marital mayhem of the dysfunctional New York couple, Augustus and his (maternal) spouse. Their risky voyage into the past climaxes with the deadly Maya ball-game, pok-a-tok, in which the captain of the losing team-loses his head! And the narrator's romance with a Maya princess is doomed.

Tintin Meets the Dragon Queen in The Return of the Maya to Manhattan

Literary

Alain Arias-Misson's COMIC BOOK barges into the bookcase like a superhero on steroids. On the surface it's a simple Boy ("Company" operative) chases Girl (gorgeous Corporate Terrorist) story. Set "physically" in comic book format, it leaps relentlessly from one discontinuous window to the next, and becomes labyrinthic and baffling as the characters-discovering their comic book constraints-attempt to throw off these mental shackles and achieve their erotic ends.Prepare to have your preconceived thought balloons punctured by this mind-blowing novel.COMIC BOOK is killer.

Comic Book

Confessions of a Murderer, Rapist, Fascist, Bomber, Thief: Or, a Year in the Journal of an Ordinary American- A Superfiction

Chicago Review Press

Mind Crime of August Saint

United States

Fiction Collective 2

Determined to solve a dual crime-on the one hand an abstract Millennial Conspiracy perpetrated against the conventional "logocentric" mind, on the other a gruesome murder-litterateur-detective August Saint embarks on a most peculiar investigation, one that requires him to unravel the collusion of a dazzling assortment of unlikely characters. In his investigation Saint wanders through a distinctly familiar European landscape, but simultaneously, inexplicably, finds himself traversing parallel media-spawned realities. He discovers that movies, comic strips, news articles, biographies, and fiction have each captured a channel on some formerly unimaginable, universal, television-like network. There characters and incidents, while indulging in spatio-temporal experimentation and dodging astrogel intervention from outer space, evolve infinitely and cross media with impunity. In this reconfigured universe Saint mingles with celebrities from movies, television, and literature; courts a beautiful Cuban maiden; and witnesses the twentieth century's most magnificent and horrific events. His discovery, after these endless and exhausting adventures? The conspirators in the crime are legion. They include a Belgian comic book hero, and agile "bi-locating" friar, an aristocratic Proustian masochist, a sinister clerical familiar, an NYPD chief of Detectives, a distinguished Italian film director, the Baader-Meinhof gang, assorted literary luminaries, and possibly even Dr. Spock. At last, the criminal is captured and brought to trial, and in his features Saint recognizes a very familiar face.In The Mind Crime of August Saint, Alain Arias-Misson mines the epistemological fault-line where the old world of the written word lies uneasily against twenty-first-century electronic media culture. His latest novel is a fascinating fictive experience of a culture in the process of transformation.

Autobiography of a Character from Fiction

PUBLIC POEMS: 50 AÑOS DE ESCRITURA EN LA CALLE

Arts & Photography

Dachy, Marc

Gómez de Liaño, Ignacio

Vallina Vallina, Alicia

History & Criticism

Ediciones Asimétricas

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