A Dozen Great Books of Fiction About Fictional Books

(alphabetically by author)

 

  • The Other City by Michal Ajvaz

  • Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño

  • Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

  • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

  • Book: A Novel by Robert Grudin

  • The Suspended Vocation by Pierre Klossowski

  • Crossings by Alex Landragin

  • One Human Minute by Stanisław Lem (reviews of nonexistent books were one of Lem’s specialties: see also A Perfect Vacuum and Imaginary Magnitude)

  • Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright by Steven Millhauser

  • Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill

  • The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus

  • The Library by Zoran Živković

— January 6, 2021


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