Bomarzo

”[Bomarzo] is a novel that will make any reader happy…. It’s a novel about art and a novel about decadence, about the luxury of writing novels and about the exquisite uselessness of the novel…. And of course it’s also a novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around.”
—Roberto Bolaño

“When the true history of our literature—and not an apology for it—comes to be written, Manuel Mujica Lainez will at last be seen as a benefactor. He brings back to contemporary writing the sense of destiny, of adventure with its hopes and fears, the tradition of Stevenson, Hugo, and—why not?—Ariosto…. An attentive reader of the great Russians and of Henry James, Mujica Lainez gives us that special delight of intimate portraiture, of watching the gradual unfolding of personality.”
—Jorge Luis Borges

“Mujica Lainez’s novel is a literary crocodile, shaped like itself, of its own color … There is no reason Bomarzo should be less well known in English than Hopscotch or One Hundred Years [of Solitude].”
—‎Michael Robbins, Book Post

Manuel Mujica Lainez (1910-1984) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a city that one of his ancestors had helped to found. He was raised in Buenos Aires, though he spent extended periods away in Paris and London, where he studied French and English. Shortly after returning to Argentina, he left law school to pursue a career as a writer. Several of his novels focus on the history of Buenos Aires, but he is perhaps best known for his fantasy novel, The Wandering Unicorn (1965), and Bomarzo (1962), which received the John F. Kennedy Prize.

Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was born in Yonkers, New York. Considered one of the most respected translators of his time, he translated the works of numerous authors into English, including Machado de Assis, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa. He was awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the Gregory Kolovakos Award, and was the first recipient of the National Book Award in Translation.

Álvaro Enrigue has been a fellow at the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Mexico, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and the program in Latin American studies at Princeton University. He has authored ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including Sudden Death, Now I Surrender, and You Dreamed of Empires. He currently teaches at Hofstra University.

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