Chronicles of Bustos Domecq

“In a series of short, sly, ironic essays…[the authors] invert, deflate, and dismantle most of the aesthetic fads of our time….Domecq is a seedy literary journalist….a pompous, brainless critic of every art in sight. He is hilariously awful and a great creation.” The Atlantic Monthly

“The real target of [the authors’] often uproarious gibes is modernism–or the part of it that zealously pursues theories of ‘pure’ form into Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. The result, which Domecq never perceives, is invariably monstrous: novels and poems that cannot be read, art that cannot be seen, architecture–freed from ‘the demands of responsibility’–that cannot be used….With donnish humor and unfailing intelligence, Chronicles of Bustos Domecq thrusts a rapier into such gargantuan posturing.” Time