Jorge Luis Borges,Adolfo Bioy Casares,Norman Thomas di Giovanni
â€œIn a series of short, sly, ironic essays...[the authors] invert, deflate, and dismantle most of the aesthetic fads of our time....Domecq is a seedy literary journalist....a pompous, brainless critic of every art in sight. He is hilariously awful and a great creation.â€ The Atlantic Monthly,â€œThe real target of [the authorsâ€™] often uproarious gibes is modernism--or the part of it that zealously pursues theories of â€˜pureâ€™ form into Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. The result, which Domecq never perceives, is invariably monstrous: novels and poems that cannot be read, art that cannot be seen, architecture--freed from â€˜the demands of responsibilityâ€™--that cannot be used....With donnish humor and unfailing intelligence, ,Chronicles of Bustos Domecq, thrusts a rapier into such gargantuan posturing.â€ Time
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Chronicles of Bustos Domecq