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A PREFACE FOR MACEDONIO FERNÁNDEZ BY ADAM THIRLWELL
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET SCHWARTZ
MUSEUM OF "ETERNA'S" NOVEL AND MELANCHOLY'S CHILD, THE "SWEETHEART" OF AN UNDECLARED LOVER
DEDICATION TO MY CHARACTER ETERNA
WHAT IS BORN AND WHAT DIES
PROLOGUE TO ETERNITY
PERSPECTIVE
PROLOGUE TO MY AUTHORIAL PERSONA
ONWARD
THE AUTHOR ALSO SPEAKS
TO THE CRITICS
LETTER TO THE CRITICS
INTRODUCING ETERNA
A HOME FOR NON-EXISTENCE
WE ARE A LIMITLESS DREAM AND ONLY A DREAM. WE CANNOT, THEREFORE, HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT NOT-DREAMING MAY BE
FOR READERS WHO WILL PERISH IF THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NOVEL IS ABOUT
A NEW PROLOGUE TO MY AUTHORIAL PERSONA
PROLOGUE THAT THINKS IT KNOWS SOMETHING, NOT ABOUT THE NOVEL (IT'S NOT ALLOWED THAT), BUT ABOUT THE DOCTRINE OF ART
THE CHARACTERS' NOVEL
PROLOGUE TO THE NEVER-SEEN
SALUTATION
ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT SALUTATION
HOW, IN THE END, THE PERFECT NOVEL IS POSSIBLE
THE LOVER
A CHARACTER, BEFORE HER FIRST APPEARANCE
ALSO A PROLOGUE
METAPHYSICAL PROLOGUE
THE MAN WHO FEIGNED TO LIVE (THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO NEEDS EXPLAINING. HE’S ALREADY BEEN EXPLAINED TWICE:1 HE LACKS EXISTENCE, BUT HE ABOUNDS IN CLARIFICATIONS.)
GUIDE TO THE PROLOGUE (WARNING PROLOGUE)
AT THE GATES OF THE NOVEL (IN ANTICIPATION OF THE STORY) HOW, AS A TRUE NOVELISTIC ARTIST, TO EXTRICATE ONESELF FROM THE READER WHO SKIPS TO THE END. REMEDY FOR THIS READERLY BLOCKAGE
FREDERICO'S ENTRANCE IN THE NOVEL, AS PROLOGUE
THE WINDOW-SHOPPING READER
TWO REJECTED CHARACTERS
FIRST PROLOGUE OF THE NOVEL FOR THE ABRIDGED READER
FOR THOSE NOT EXPERT IN METAPHYSICS
DESCRIPTION OF ETERNA (SWEETHEART SAYS SHE DOESN'T KNOW ETERNA; HERE I’VE NOTED WHAT SHE'S LIKE, SO THAT SWEETHEART CAN MEET HER, SINCE IT PLEASES ME TO APPEASE THE CURIOSITY OF MY CHARACTERS
THE ESSENTIAL FANTASMAGORICALISM OF THE WORLD
PROLOGUE OF INDECISION
ANOTHER PROLOGUE
THIS NOVEL BEGAN BY LOSING NICOLASA, ITS "COOK CHARACTER," WHO RESIGNED FOR THE NOBLEST OF REASONS
NOVEL OF CLOISTERED THINGS, OF MUTENESSES, OF SECRETS, OF HIDDEN FRAGRENCES, OF WORDS THAT HAVE NO SOUND BECAUSE THEY DEPEND ON THE LIPS OF A FACE OR SMILE TO SPEAK THEM AND THIS SMILE IS NOT GIVEN
ETERNA AND SWEETHEART (DURATION OF SCENE: THAT OF A FLOWER'S OPENING.)
PROLOGUE FOR A BORROWED CHARACTER
TO THE AUTHOR (OF THE NOVEL) HAS NOTHING HAPPENED TO YOU?
PROLOGUE OF AUTHORIAL DESPAIR
MAYBEGENIUS LAMENTS HIS NAME
FOR THE CHARACTERS IN MY NOVEL
PROLOGUE READ IN RECOMPENSE FOR THE AUTHOR WHO FORBIDS A BOY FROM ENTERING THE NOVEL
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT: I MUST KEEP PROLOGUING
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME
PROLOGUE THAT FEELS LIKE A NOVEL
PROLOGUE OF THE KETTLE AND THE WARDROBE
WITTY1 LETTER THAT I WOULD LIKE ONE OF MY CHARACTERS, THE PRESIDENT, TO WRITE TO RICARDO NARDAL
DOES SIMPLY “COMING BEFORE” MAKE A PROLOGUE?
THE MODEL PROLOGUE
FOURFOLD PROLOGUE?
THE PRESIDENT AND DEATH
FOR THE READER WHO SKIPS AROUND
A CURSE ON THE ORDERLY READER
PROLOGUE THAT STANDS UP ON ITS TIPTOES TO SEE HOW FAR AWAY THE NOVEL BEGINS
FIRST: POSTPROLOGUERY NOTE; AND SECOND: PRENOVELISTIC OBSERVATIONS
WERE THOSE PROLOGUES? AND IS THIS THE NOVEL?
AWAKENING. NOVEL-TIME BEGINS. MOVEMENT
CHAPTER I (TIME, THE CAUSE OF TEARS, FLOWS)
CHAPTER II (THE NOVEL'S TIME BEGINS, AND LESS OF IT REMAINS)
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI (TO FILL SIX YEARS' ABSENCE, AND ITS DOUBTS)
CHAPTER VII (LIFE TRIES TO FORCE ITS WAY INTO THE NOVEL)
CHAPTER VIII (NO.)
CHAPTER IX (IN THE TIME BETWEEN FEDERICO'S TWO EXPULSIONS, SINCE HE APPROACHES THE DESERTED "LA NOVELA" TWENTY TIMES A DAY)
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI (A PARENTHESIS IN THE NOVEL WHEREIN A FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY IS INSERTED THAT TREATS OF THE FOLLOWING: A THEORY OF THE "READ BY CHARACTERS FROM ANOTHER NOVEL" NOVEL)
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV (STILL.)
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI (TODAY THERE'S MORE PAST THAN THERE WAS YESTERDAY)
CHAPTER XVII (A MINUTE MORE, OR A MINUTE LESS, REMAINS IN "LA NOVELA")
CHAPTER XVIII A BRILLIANT LITTLE HEAP OF DELIBERATION SPOKEN IN WHISPERING GUSTS, BY THE CHARACTERS, WHO RALLY TO GIVE ETERNA LIFE
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX. EPILOGUE
ATTEMPT TO HEAL THE WOUND INCURRED
THE NOVEL IN STAGES
TO WHOEVER WANTS TO WRITE THIS NOVEL (FINAL PROLOGUE.)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
