Jean-Yves Funes, hijo de una francesa y de un tanguero argentino, era un nino en el Paris de posguerra cuando decidio ser escritor, luego de leer el cuento de Borges sobre el insomne Funes. Mucho despues, ya anciano, convertido en un especialista en literaturas iberoamericanas, se dirige a un congreso en Lyon. El viaje es un tributo a su anorada esposa, una alumna que eligio su clase atraida por el apellido tan literario. Pero en este viaje iran saltando como liebres fantasmales los Funes de Cortazar, de Bioy Casares, de Roa Bastos, todos los Funes que deberian figurar en el libro proyectado con su esposa muerta. Y muchos otros otros Funes. / Jean-Yves Funés was a young boy in post-war Paris when he decided he wanted to be a writer, after reading one of Borges stories about the insomniac Funes. Funès becomes an expert in Latin American literature, and as an old man attends a conference in Lyon. The trip is a tribute to his much missed wife; a student drawn to him by his highly literary surname. During the trip he is visited by the ghosts of the Funèses of Cortázar, Bioy Casares and Roa Bastos, all the Funèses who should appear in the book he planned with his dead wife. And many more.
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