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When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard—paralyzing the professor and killing his guest—the "mystery of the sardine" begins

"Everything about Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis seems double

Edouard Levé: Works South America Although best to read the"A book describes works conceived of but not realized by its author." Like Suicide and Autoportrait, Works is another of Eduoard Lev's bewitching reconceptions of what the novel can (or should) do. A list of 533 projects, beginning with its own description both likely and unlikely, sober and ridiculous; some of which Lev later realized, most of which he did not. Works ranks with the fiction of Georges Perec for its seemingly limitless, ingenious, and