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Chronicles of Bustos Domecq

“In 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.” The Atlantic Monthly

“The real target of [the authors’] often uproarious gibes is modernism — or the part of it that zealously pursues theories of ‘pure’ 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 ‘the demands of responsibility’ — that cannot be used....With donnish humor and unfailing intelligence, Chronicles of Bustos Domecq thrusts a rapier into such gargantuan posturing.” Time

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 143
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780525475484
  • Settings
  • Argentina
  • Genres
  • fiction, literature, humor, criticism, essays
  • Release date
  • 1979