CHRONICLES OF BUSTOS DOMECQ

Allen Lane, London, 1982, 1^st thus.  ISBN 0-7139-1109-3.  Hard cover, 143 pages.  Very good plus; binding tight, light edge wear, top spine edge bumped.  Dust jacket with price intact shows light edge and cover wear, spine a bit sunned; some age spots along upper and lower flap edges.  Interior clean and unmarked with just a hint of age spotting on upper and lower text block edges.  Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.  ‘In these Chronicles, Honario Bustos Domecq, a seedy journalist and pompous poseur, is involved in a hilarious series of spoof essays in which he inverts, deflates and dismantles most of the aesthetic fads of our time.  “… The result, which Domecq never perceives, is invariably monstrous:  novels and poems that cannot be read, art that cannot be seen, architecture that cannot be used … With donnish humour and unfailing intelligence, Chronicles of Bustos Domecq thrusts a rapier into such gargantuan posturing”-Time.  H. Bustos Domecq is the joint pseudonym of Borges and his friend Adolfo Bioy-Casares.’ (from front flap)