The Museum of Eterna's Novel
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The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) is the very definition of a novel written ahead of its time. 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.” 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 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, The Museum of Eterna’s Novel redefined the limits of the genre, and has had a lasting impact on Latin American literature. Authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Ricardo Piglia have all fallen under its charm and high-concepts, and, at long last, English-speaking readers can experience the book that helped build the reputation of Borges’s mentor.
- A PREFACE FOR MACEDONIO FERN ÁNDEZ BY ADAM THIRLWELL
- TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET SCHWARTZ
- MUSEUM OF "ETERNA'S" NOVEL AND MELANCHOLY'S CHILD, THE "SWEETHEART" OF AN UNDECLARED LOVER
- DEDICATION TO MY CHARACTER ETERNA
- WHAT IS BORN AND WHAT DIES
- PROLOGUE TO ETERNITY
- PERSPECTIVE
- PROLOGUE TO MY AUTHORIAL PERSONA
- ONWARD
- THE AUTHOR ALSO SPEAKS
- TO THE CRITICS
- LETTER TO THE CRITICS
- INTRODUCING ETERNA
- A HOME FOR NON-EXISTENCE
- WE ARE A LIMITLESS DREAM AND ONLY A DREAM. WE CANNOT, THEREFORE, HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT NOT-DREAMING MAY BE
- FOR READERS WHO WILL PERISH IF THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NOVEL IS ABOUT
- A NEW PROLOGUE TO MY AUTHORIAL PERSONA
- PROLOGUE THAT THINKS IT KNOWS SOMETHING, NOT ABOUT THE NOVEL (IT'S NOT ALLOWED THAT), BUT ABOUT THE DOCTRINE OF ART
- THE CHARACTERS' NOVEL
- PROLOGUE TO THE NEVER-SEEN
- SALUTATION
- ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT SALUTATION
- HOW, IN THE END, THE PERFECT NOVEL IS POSSIBLE
- THE LOVER
- A CHARACTER, BEFORE HER FIRST APPEARANCE
- ALSO A PROLOGUE
- METAPHYSICAL PROLOGUE
- THE MAN WHO FEIGNED TO LIVE (THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO NEEDS EXPLAINING. HE’S ALREADY BEEN EXPLAINED TWICE: 1 HE LACKS EXISTENCE, BUT HE ABOUNDS IN CLARIFICATIONS.)
- GUIDE TO THE PROLOGUE (WARNING PROLOGUE)
- AT THE GATES OF THE NOVEL (IN ANTICIPATION OF THE STORY) HOW, AS A TRUE NOVELISTIC ARTIST, TO EXTRICATE ONESELF FROM THE READER WHO SKIPS TO THE END. REMEDY FOR THIS READERLY BLOCKAGE
- FREDERICO'S ENTRANCE IN THE NOVEL, AS PROLOGUE
- THE WINDOW-SHOPPING READER
- TWO REJECTED CHARACTERS
- FIRST PROLOGUE OF THE NOVEL FOR THE ABRIDGED READER
- FOR THOSE NOT EXPERT IN METAPHYSICS
- DESCRIPTION OF ETERNA (SWEETHEART SAYS SHE DOESN'T KNOW ETERNA; HERE I’VE NOTED WHAT SHE'S LIKE, SO THAT SWEETHEART CAN MEET HER, SINCE IT PLEASES ME TO APPEASE THE CURIOSITY OF MY CHARACTERS
- THE ESSENTIAL FANTASMAGORICALISM OF THE WORLD
- PROLOGUE OF INDECISION
- ANOTHER PROLOGUE
- THIS NOVEL BEGAN BY LOSING NICOLASA, ITS "COOK CHARACTER," WHO RESIGNED FOR THE NOBLEST OF REASONS
- NOVEL OF CLOISTERED THINGS, OF MUTENESSES, OF SECRETS, OF HIDDEN FRAGRENCES, OF WORDS THAT HAVE NO SOUND BECAUSE THEY DEPEND ON THE LIPS OF A FACE OR SMILE TO SPEAK THEM AND THIS SMILE IS NOT GIVEN
- ETERNA AND SWEETHEART (DURATION OF SCENE: THAT OF A FLOWER'S OPENING.)
- PROLOGUE FOR A BORROWED CHARACTER
- TO THE AUTHOR (OF THE NOVEL) HAS NOTHING HAPPENED TO YOU?
- PROLOGUE OF AUTHORIAL DESPAIR
- MAYBEGENIUS LAMENTS HIS NAME
- FOR THE CHARACTERS IN MY NOVEL
- PROLOGUE READ IN RECOMPENSE FOR THE AUTHOR WHO FORBIDS A BOY FROM ENTERING THE NOVEL
- WHAT DO YOU EXPECT: I MUST KEEP PROLOGUING
- WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME
- PROLOGUE THAT FEELS LIKE A NOVEL
- PROLOGUE OF THE KETTLE AND THE WARDROBE
- WITTY 1 LETTER THAT I WOULD LIKE ONE OF MY CHARACTERS, THE PRESIDENT, TO WRITE TO RICARDO NARDAL
- DOES SIMPLY “COMING BEFORE” MAKE A PROLOGUE?
- THE MODEL PROLOGUE
- FOURFOLD PROLOGUE?
- THE PRESIDENT AND DEATH
- FOR THE READER WHO SKIPS AROUND
- A CURSE ON THE ORDERLY READER
- PROLOGUE THAT STANDS UP ON ITS TIPTOES TO SEE HOW FAR AWAY THE NOVEL BEGINS
- FIRST: POSTPROLOGUERY NOTE; AND SECOND: PRENOVELISTIC OBSERVATIONS
- WERE THOSE PROLOGUES? AND IS THIS THE NOVEL?
- AWAKENING. NOVEL-TIME BEGINS. MOVEMENT
- CHAPTER I (TIME, THE CAUSE OF TEARS, FLOWS)
- CHAPTER II (THE NOVEL'S TIME BEGINS, AND LESS OF IT REMAINS)
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI (TO FILL SIX YEARS' ABSENCE, AND ITS DOUBTS)
- CHAPTER VII (LIFE TRIES TO FORCE ITS WAY INTO THE NOVEL)
- CHAPTER VIII (NO.)
- CHAPTER IX (IN THE TIME BETWEEN FEDERICO'S TWO EXPULSIONS, SINCE HE APPROACHES THE DESERTED "LA NOVELA" TWENTY TIMES A DAY)
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI (A PARENTHESIS IN THE NOVEL WHEREIN A FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY IS INSERTED THAT TREATS OF THE FOLLOWING: A THEORY OF THE "READ BY CHARACTERS FROM ANOTHER NOVEL" NOVEL)
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV (STILL.)
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI (TODAY THERE'S MORE PAST THAN THERE WAS YESTERDAY)
- CHAPTER XVII (A MINUTE MORE, OR A MINUTE LESS, REMAINS IN "LA NOVELA")
- CHAPTER XVIII A BRILLIANT LITTLE HEAP OF DELIBERATION SPOKEN IN WHISPERING GUSTS, BY THE CHARACTERS, WHO RALLY TO GIVE ETERNA LIFE
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX. EPILOGUE
- ATTEMPT TO HEAL THE WOUND INCURRED
- THE NOVEL IN STAGES
- TO WHOEVER WANTS TO WRITE THIS NOVEL (FINAL PROLOGUE.)
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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