The Museum of Eterna's Novel: The First Good Novel by Macedonio Fernández

Author:Macedonio Fernández [Fernández, Macedonio]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Philosophy, Argentinian Literature, Experimental, Fiction
ISBN: 9781934824061
Publisher: Open Letter
Published: 1967-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

FOURFOLD PROLOGUE?

I hope that my numerous prologues—a kind of “Complete Works of Prologuery”—and my novel will be considered so good that it will be as if Posterity itself, which decides what is good, had commissioned them.

And I seriously believe that Literature is precisely the belarte of: artistically carrying out something that others have already discovered. This is the law for all belarte and it means that the “subject matter” of art lacks any intrinsic artistic value or that the whole value of art is in the execution. To classify subjects, deciding that some are better or more interesting than others, is to speak of ethics: aesthetics as such is the artistic rendering of any subject. Everyone can easily find subject matter, it’s superabundant: artistic pages are extremely scarce, and manufactured with desperation, with Labor’s tears and rages.

Maybe this suffering and constant failure annexes the artistic urge, it’s the punishment for whoever prefers dreaming to living, art to life, when life has for us an Eterna in whom all beauty finds expression, heartbeat, breath; so that to look towards art is like using flashlights during the Day.

And if, having Eterna, we still pursue inventive art, we’re all the more blind and we walk as though guided against our better selves, carried away by baseness, since persisting in invention despite having found a living Eterna is a horrible option contrary to our nature.

In Eterna’s orbit invention is meaningless.

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