Macedonio Fernandez: Between Literature, Philosophy, and the Avant-Garde

At Macedonio Fernández''s funeral in 1952, Jorge Luis Borges delivered the following elegy: “In those years I imitated him to the point of transcription, to the point of devout and passionate plagiarism. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, Macedonio is literature.” This is the first book available in English that collects essays by the world''s leading scholars on Macedonio Fernández, one of Borges'...