Some of my heroes

Mark E. Smith - lead singer for british group The Fall.
Magnum opus: The Fall's 1983 album Hex Enduction Hour.


Julio Cortázar - Argentinian author of short stories and experimental novels.
Magnum opus: the novel Hopscotch which was published in 1963.


Jorge Luis Borges - world-renown author of short stories and man of wisdom.
Magnum opus: the short story The Aleph

Frank Zappa - prolific rock composer, polymath and social commentator.
Magnum opus: the 1972 album The Grand Wazoo

Don Van Vliet - idiosyncratic rock performer and expressionist painter.
Magnum opus: 1969's Trout Mask Replica


Juan Carlos Onetti - Uruguayan novelist who preceded the latin-american 'boom' and was one of the creators of 'magic realism'.
Magnum opus: the novel A Brief Life

Igor Stravinsky - 20th century's most important composer who vigorously reshaped the way we perceive music.
Magnum opus: the 1913 ballet entitled The Rite of Spring

Coen Brothers - Hollywood film-makers who have created numerous post-modern, oddball movies.
Magnum opus: Barton Fink

Harry Partch - Outsider and hobo who created incredibly imaginative and ethnically diverse musical compositions.
Magnum opus: Delusion of the Fury

J. G. Ballard - A maverick English novelist and short story writer who juxtaposes science fiction with surrealism and Freudian psychology.
Magnum opus: The Unlimited Dream Company


Paul Auster - American writer whose novels deal with arbitary and coincidental events.
Magnum opus: the novella City of Glass