by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449408229
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«Crónicas de Bustos Domecq» is the book of satirical chronicles by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, published by Losada (156 pages, in Spanish).
Under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq, Borges and Bioy Casares invent writers, sculptors, architects, gastronomes and painters who do not exist, yet prove dangerously possible. The twenty chronicles, almost all narrative, mock with irony the cultural fashions and the craving for novelty in art.
Originally published in 1967, this paperback edition belongs to the Clásicos Universales collection (no. 7) and includes a prologue by Gervasio Montenegro.
A work for readers of Hispanic American literature and satirical tales, as well as for those who follow the joint work of Borges and Bioy Casares.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
