Word: fernã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Museum of Eterna’s Novel” by Macedonio Fern??ndez is engaging and hilarious, light-hearted and profound. The one non-contradictory aspect of the work is its overt attempt to win the reader’s time, attention, praise, and awe—a goal at which it succeeds beautifully. As the author himself describes it, “This will be the novel that’s thrown violently to the floor most often, and avidly taken up again just as often. What author can boast of that?” The novel...
...author, and what fiction can and cannot do. “The Museum of Eterna’s Novel” is a proverbial Wonderland of wit and explicitly enunciated confusion, where forward leads backwards, and where a word is synonymous with its opposite. As the novel progresses, Fern??ndez constantly shifts voice and tone in a self-conscious attempt to disorient his reader...
Counter attributed the efficiency of his relief trip to his collaboration with Dominican Republic President Leonel Fern??ndez Reyna...
...Fern??ndez, who is friends with Counter, provided the relief team with two helicopters, allowing Counter’s group to fly directly into Port-au-Prince, Counter said...
...later years, Sosa went beyond her role as a musician to serve as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. But the South American troubadour (below, with Argentine President Cristina Fern??ndez de Kirchner) never thought of herself as an activist. "All of us," she once said, "whether we are artists or military, must collaborate if we are to keep democracy on its feet and walking...