Description
| Product ID: | 9781934824061 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Museum Of Eterna's Novel |
| Subtitle: | The First Good Novel |
| Authors: | Author: Macedonio Fernandez |
| Page Count: | 248 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Macedonio''s masterpiece. 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''s defies linearity!). The novel itself, is about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called ''la novella'''' |
| Imprint Name: | Open Letter |
| Publisher Name: | Open Letter |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-03-04 |