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Manuel Mujica Lainez (1910-1984) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina-a city that one of his ancestors had helped to found. It was also the city where he was raised, though with long periods away in Paris and London, where he studied French and English. Not long after returning to Argentina, he dropped out of law school to pursue a career as a writer. Several of his novels revolve around the history of Buenos Aires, though he is perhaps best remembered for a fantasy novel, The Wandering Unicorn (1965), and Bomarzo (1962), which was awarded the John F. Kennedy Prize. Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was born in Yonkers, New York. One of the most respected translators of his generation, he brought the work of many writers into English-among them Machado de Assis, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa. He was the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Gregory Kolovakos Award, and the first National Book Award in Translation. lvaro Enrigue has been a fellow in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Mexico, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and the program in Latin American studies at Princeton University. He is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, among them Sudden Death, Now I Surrender, and You Dreamed of Empires. He teaches at Hofstra University.
""[Bomarzo] is a novel that will make any reader happy.... It’s a novel about art and a novel about decadence, about the luxury of writing novels and about the exquisite uselessness of the novel.... And of course it’s also a novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around."" —Roberto Bolaño ""When the true history of our literature—and not an apology for it—comes to be written, Manuel Mujica Lainez will at last be seen as a benefactor. He brings back to contemporary writing the sense of destiny, of adventure with its hopes and fears, the tradition of Stevenson, Hugo, and—why not?—Ariosto.... An attentive reader of the great Russians and of Henry James, Mujica Lainez gives us that special delight of intimate portraiture, of watching the gradual unfolding of personality."" —Jorge Luis Borges ""Mujica Lainez’s novel is a literary crocodile, shaped like itself, of its own color . . . There is no reason Bomarzo should be less well known in English than Hopscotch or One Hundred Years [of Solitude]."" —Michael Robbins, Book Post
