Эта книга — одна из серии антологий, составленных Хорхе Луисом Борхесом совместно со своими друзьями — писателями Адольфо Бьой Касаресом и Сильвиной Окампо. Шестьдесят пять авторов самых разных эпох и культур расскажут читателю множество удивительных историй о чудесном и необычайном.

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...