Museum Of Eterna s Novel
Museum Of Eterna s Novel I imitated him, to the point of transcription, to the point of devoted and impassioned plagiarism. Whoever preceded him might shine in history, but they were all rough drafts…
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Museum Of Eterna s Novel
I imitated him, to the point of transcription, to the point of devoted and impassioned plagiarism. Whoever preceded him might shine in history, but they were all rough drafts of Macedonio, imperfect previous versions. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, is literature.
Macedonio (known to everyone by his unusual first name) worked on this novel in the 1930s and early '40s, during the heyday of Argentine literary culture, and around the same time that At Swim-Two-Birds was published, a novel that has quite a bit in common with Macedonio's masterpiece.In many ways, Museum is an anti-novel. To not imitate this canon would have represented incredible negligence.--Jorge Luis BorgesThe Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) is the very definition of a novel written ahead of its time. It opens with more than fifty prologues--including ones addressed