The museum of eterna's novel : the first good novel
Fernandez, Macedonio , 1874-1952
The museum of eterna's novel : the first good novel / Macedonio Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz ; preface by Adam Thirlwell ; introduction by the translator - 1st ed. - Rochester, NY : Open Letter , 2010. - xxiv, 238 p. ; 22 cm.
Masterpiece from Jorge Luis Borges's mentor. Translation of: Museo de la novela de la eterna.
In many ways, this is an "anti-novel." It opens with more than fifty prologuesincluding ones addressed "To My Authorial Persona," "To the Critics," and "To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don't Know What the Novel Is About" -"that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart "skip-around readers" (by writing a book that defies linearity!). The second half of the book is the novel itself, a novel about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called "la novella" . . . A hilarious and often quite moving book.
Translated from the Spanish.
9781934824061
2009048625
Latin America---Fiction
Argentina----Fiction
PQ7797.F312 / M813 2010
LAS FIC FER
The museum of eterna's novel : the first good novel / Macedonio Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz ; preface by Adam Thirlwell ; introduction by the translator - 1st ed. - Rochester, NY : Open Letter , 2010. - xxiv, 238 p. ; 22 cm.
Masterpiece from Jorge Luis Borges's mentor. Translation of: Museo de la novela de la eterna.
In many ways, this is an "anti-novel." It opens with more than fifty prologuesincluding ones addressed "To My Authorial Persona," "To the Critics," and "To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don't Know What the Novel Is About" -"that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart "skip-around readers" (by writing a book that defies linearity!). The second half of the book is the novel itself, a novel about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called "la novella" . . . A hilarious and often quite moving book.
Translated from the Spanish.
9781934824061
2009048625
Latin America---Fiction
Argentina----Fiction
PQ7797.F312 / M813 2010
LAS FIC FER
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