Fernandez, Macedonio  , 1874-1952 <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> Masterpiece from Jorge Luis Borges's mentor.  Translation of: Museo de la novela de la eterna. 
<br/><br/> In many ways, this is an "anti-novel." It opens with more than fifty prologues€including 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Spanish. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781934824061 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009048625 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Latin America---Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Argentina----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ7797.F312  / M813 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS FIC FER