From the introduction to the Ultraist manifesto, it seems the genre that "The Museum of Eterna's Novel" would be categorized as is Ultraism. The attributes of Ultraism, such as playing with ideas as of they were characters, and the editing of transitional phrases is evident throughout the course of the book. As for the piece of work by Borges on ultraism, it seemed to be lacking substance; I don't know if the two pages that we were given was the full text, but I definitely got more information about this movement from Suzanne Levine.
As for the rest of Fernandez's work, i was interested for a while with the tension that was being nuilt between the characers; I had to agree with the words that were written for me on p. 165, "Reader: I'm not interested in whoever i might be; this delicious dizziness is enough to bring me in to the subtle orbit of the novel."
In retrospect, there were times when i truly did appreciate what was happening in the novel, and I could delve in to its complexity without the words swirling in front of my eyes. The constant speculation in the novel got tiresome though: I have read my fair share on the nature of companionship, eternity, and love.
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