Blue Library
9843 La materia del nulla
Macedonio Fernández. Edited by Marcello Ravoni. Introduction by Jorge Luis Borges
1974 .
Language: Italian
A diverse anthology drawn from diverse books and made up of disjointed toasts, letters, stories, aphorisms, and chapters, this amusement park of the absurd introduces a literary myth like Macedonio Fernández .
A minimal anthology showcasing the work of Macedonio Fernández, whose prose surprises us with its inventive disruption of predictable language, coexisting with rigorous exposition. The fragments collected here can be divided into three simple contrasts: sleep-wakefulness; psyche-body; humour-solemnity. In all three, Macedonio always favoured the former term. Readers can bear this perspective in mind and take pleasure in what they discover through reading, even if inclined to favour the body over the psyche and wakefulness over sleep.