An Inventory of (invented) Inventions

Eduardo Berti

NARRATIVE. IMPEDIMENTA, 2017. 208 PAGES

An Inventory of (invented) Inventions is an enormous library of literary inventions: objects that only exist in fiction and other creations that first appeared in the pages of a book or the imagination of a writer but are now a reality.

It begins with a hundred inventions: from Baby HP, invented by the Mexican writer Juan José Arreola, to kallocain (the truth drug), the creation of the Swedish writer and pacifist Karin Boye by way of the Russian writer Sigismund Kryzanowski's superficine, Raymond Queneau's myopiacide and various machines created by a wide range of writers including Jules Verne, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Alphonse Allais, J. R. Wilcock, Stanisław Lem, Juan de la Coba, Roald Dahl and Dino Buzzati: the silence maker, alarm earrings, glasses to see old people, the human silencer, Garcia Fluid, the mirror with a memory, the novel inventing machine, the emotional GPS, the accent removing pill, the masochistic coffee maker, the bat bomb, the dog-human translation machine, the love umbrella, the indiscreet television and the automatic book finder.

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