The New Universal History of Infamy by Rhys H. Hughes (2004)

Product Details

• Format - Hardcover
• Condition - Pages crisp and clear with tight binding. See images to fully assess condition.

Synopsis

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 unsavoury 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. This book is with an introduction by noted critic John Clute and an afterword by Michael Simanoff.

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