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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

By:

Fernandez, Macedonio, , 1874-1952

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Rochester, NY : Open Letter , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiv, 238 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781934824061

Uniform titles:

Museo de la novela de la eterna . English

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DDC classification:

LAS FIC FER

LOC classification:

PQ7797.F312 M813 2010

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC FER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		025861

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.

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