2015年7月8日水曜日

In the Cafe by Cesar Aira

  I don’t understand the theme of this story.
  The plot is simple. A four-year-old girl gets works of origami made by customers, one after another, at a café while her mother is talking with her friend. The first origami is a boat, which soon comes apart while she is carrying it to her mother. The next one is a plane, which is followed by a doll, a hen, a clown, a coffee cup with a saucer, a museum, and a boat with Potemkin and Catherine the Great sailing between the banks where people are cheering, and a kangaroo and the joey, and Thinker. Finally when she is called by her mother and they are just leaving the café, when she is given a polyhedron. The writer describes the customers’ occupation and appearances, and discuss how they come to make origami elaborately, I say, too elaborately.
   Every origami is destroyed unintentionally by the girl. Does the story hint the destruction of the beautiful globe? Human beings are continuously destroying without paying any attention to God’s work.

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