An """"anti-novel."""" It opens with more than fifty prologues-including ones addressed """"To My Authorial Persona,"""" """"To the Critics,"""" and """"To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don't Know What the Novel Is About""""-that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart """"skip-around readers"""" (by writing a book that's defies linearity!). The novel itself, is about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called """"la novella