In another story a newspaper reporter goes to interview Ramon Bonavena, the author of a six-volume masterwork called North-Northwest.
He had books such as The Hound of the Baskervilles and Uncle Tom’s Cabin printed under his own name and at his own expense. Paladion took this approach one step further by ‘appropriating’ entire works from other writers. Homage to Cesar Paladion is a biographical sketch of the Argentinean writer whose ‘poetical method’ was inspired by the fact that T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound quoted from Baudelaire, Verlaine, and The Odyssey in their work. It is no surprise to learn that both Domecq and Montenegro are entirely fictitious.
Montenegro showers praise on his own achievements as a writer, and damns the work of Domecq with praise so faint it is almost insulting. This preface itself arouses our suspicions, for it is written in an absurdly inflated and self-regarding manner. A brief note on Domecq written by Dr Gervasio Montenegro (Argentine Academy of Letters) acts as an introduction and preface to the stories. Honorio Bustos Domecq was an Argentinean man of letters.
His collaborator Casares was a writer, journalist, and translator best known for his science fiction novel The Invention of Morel Their stories explore the playful, imaginative, and sometimes fantastic relationship between fiction and reality which Borges was to make his hallmark in works such as the famous collection of stories Fictions. Both of them wrote stories, reviews, and skits for a variety of newspapers and literary journals – particularly Sur, founded by their friend Victoria Ocampo in 1931. Short stories, satirical sketches, and parodies of criticismĬhronicles of Bustos Domecq (1979) is a collection of short fiction that Jorge Luis Borges wrote in collaboration with his fellow Argentinean, the novelist Adolfo Bioy Casares.
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