My biggest complaint about Aira's stand-alone novellas is that when confined to a single plot his imaginative and paradoxical concepts tend to lose steam about 3/4 of the way through.

This format is far more natural fit for Aira's obsessive style, and allows him the freedom to move from one thought experiment to the next, once he's explored (and then thoroughly refuted) his point. ( )

Brilliant with words but I did not have the patience to follow all the tangential twists and turns.