The Museum of Eterna's Novel : The First Good Novel

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 novel itself, is about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called ''la novella''''