Chronicles of Bustos Domecq

144 Pages·1979·2.015 MB·English

by  Jorge Luis Borges

BY JORGE LUIS BORGES
Ficciones
Labyrinths
Dream tigers
Other Inquisitions 1937-1952
A Personal Anthology
The Book of Imaginary Beings
The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969
Doctor Brodie's Report
Selected Poems 1923-1967
A Universal History of Infamy
In Praise of Darkness
BY ADOLFO BIOY-CASARES
The Invention of Morel and Other Stories
Diary of the War of the Pig
A Plan for Escape

JORGE ADOLFO
LUIS BIOY
BORGES CASARES
TRANSLATED BY
NORMAN THOMAS DI GIOVANNI
E. P. DUTTON & CO., INC.
NEW YORK 1976
Assistance for the translation of this volume was given by the Ingram
Merrill Foundation.
First Edition.
Copyright © 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976 by Jorge Luis Borges,
Adolfo Bioy-Casares, and Norman Thomas di Giovanni.
All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
The original title of this book is Cr6nicas de Bustos Domecq, Copyright © 1967
by Editorial Losada, S.A., Buenos Aires.
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
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Published simultaneously in Canada
by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, Toronto and Vancouver.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Bustos Domecq, Honorio, pseud.
Chronicles of Bustos Domecq.
Translation of Cronicas de Bustos Domecq.
Includes index.
I. Title.
PQ7797.B873C713 864 75-20182
ISBN: 0-525-08047-3
Sundry of these chronicles were warmly received and perspicaciously sin
gled out for publication by the editors of the following-we frankly admit
outstanding periodicals (parenthetically are the titles under which these
papers first appeared):
Antaeus: "In Search of the Absolute"
The Antioch Review: Foreword by Gervasio Montenegro, "The Selective
Eye," "Naturalism Revived" (collected under the title "H. Bustos Domecq:
Select Chronicles")
Encounter: "On Universal Theater" ("H. Bustos Domecq on Universal
Theatre")
The New Yorker: "The Immortals," "An Evening with Ramon Bonavena"
The New Yark Times Book Review: "The Idlers" ("H. Bustos Domecq on Au
tomation"), "The Flowering of an Art" ("H. Bustos Domecq on the New Ar
chitecture"), "An Abstract Art" ("H. Bustos Domecq on Gastronomy"), "A
Brand-New Approach" ("H. Bustos Domecq on Revisionism")
The Scotsman: "Esse est Percipi"
Translation: "A List and Analysis of the Sundry Books of F. J. C. Loomis"
TriQuarterly: "Homage to Cesar Paladion," "The Sartorial Revolution (I),"
"The Sartorial Revolution (II)" (collected under the title "Three Chronicles
of Bustos Domecq"), "The Brotherhood Movement" ("H. Bustos Domecq
on the Brotherhood Movement")
To those three forgotten greats
Picasso, Joyce, Le Corbusier

Contents
Foreword by Gervasio Montenegro 13
Homage to Cesar Paladi6n 19
An Evening with Ramon Bonavena 25
In Search of the Absolute 33
Naturalism Revived 41
A List and Analysis of the Sundry Books
of F. J. C. Loomis 49
An Abstract Art 5 7
The Brotherhood Movement 65
On Universal Theater 71
The Flowering of an Art 77
Gradus ad Parnassum 83
The Selective Eye 91
What's Missing Hurts Not 97
The Multifaceted Vilaseco 103
Tafas, a Talented Brush 107
The Sartorial Revolution (I) 111
The Sartorial Revolution (II) 1 17
A Brand-New Approach 121
Esse est P ercipi 1 2 5
The Idlers 129
The Immortals 133
Index by H. Bustos Domecq 141