gotdamn, he makes joyce look like a late Bloomer! in this hysterical and darkdarkdark nuthouse you get the narrator's crazy drawings (i ripped out the pages and stuck 'em on the wall next to my desk), made-up words, demented philosophical systems, aphorisms, chapters that describe their own uselessness, chapters asking to be inserted within the text of other chapters, and wonderful sections in which the narrator commands us to disregard the text, that he's full of shit, that he's overwritten something to make it sound more literary. Top three reasons why machado must be read:ġ) 1880! 18fucking80! madman machado wrote a modernist masterpiece way back when. along with carpentier and mutis he takes the top 'what the fuck' spot. How is this genius is not known? at the top of the literary canon? only a species as cretinous as ours could ignore machado. A sick chicken and the voluptuousness of misery
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