A NEW UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY (signed/limited ed.)

One of 100 copies signed by Hughes on a special limitation page. Includes an additional story, "Life and the Plumbline", which is not in the trade edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

From Publisher:

If not for my indefinite sojourn in the Garden of the Forking Paths, I would have time to tell you how delighted I am that a certain intrepid Welshman has decided to continue my work. In his aping of my Universal History, this Welshman has come to find his own mischievious truth. - Jorge Luis Borges From 1933 to 1934, Jorge Luis Borges, the master of fiction whose work would change the literary world, published a series of falsifications and distortions in the Buenos Aires newspaper Critica. These falsifications used as their starting point the lives of real villains and desperados. Borges then elaborated using all of the anecdotes and myths about these historical characters, creating what amounted to nonfictional fictions. The entire series was then published in book form as A Universal History of Infamy. Now Rhys Hughes, a Welshman of some infamy himself, has summoned his vast storytelling powers to create A New Universal History of Infamy, with all-new historical characters as the focus of his nonfiction fictions. Come along on a wild ride with unsavory types of every description. Entertaining and erudite at the same time, Hughes' book also includes some of the literary parodies Borges himself delighted in creating. With an introduction by noted critic John Clute and an afterword by Michael Simanoff.

Product Info

ISBN: 1892389843

ISBN-13: 9781892389848

Publisher: The Ministry of Whimsy Press.

Year: 2004

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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