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Author Dorfman, Ariel, author.

Title Some write to the future : essays on contemporary Latin American fiction / Ariel Dorfman ; translated by George Shivers with the author
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Men of maize : myth as time and language -- Borges and American violence -- Fathers and bridges over hell : Deep rivers -- Sandwiched between Proust and the mummy : seven notes and an epilogue on Carpentier's Reasons of state -- Political code and literary code : the testimonial genre in Chile today -- The rivers of Roa Bastos -- Someone writes to the future : meditations on hope and violence in García Márquez
Summary Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as the novel Widows and the play Death and the Maiden. A master of various literary forms, this collection draws together Dorfman's critical essays on contemporary Latin American writing. Spanning more than twenty years and arranged in chronological order, each essay is devoted to a single author--Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, José Maria Arguedas, Alejo Carpentier, Gabrial Garcia Márquez, Roa Bastos--and one final essay looks at the "testimonial" or concentration camp literature from Chile.Praise for Ariel Dorfman"One of the most important voices coming out of Latin America."--Salman Rushdie"A remarkable writer . . . writing out of a very different cultural perspective from comfortable American readers."--Digby Diehl, Los Angeles Herald Examiner"One of the six greatest Latin American novelists."--Jacobo Timmerman, Newsweek
Analysis Spanish fiction
Central America
South America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-247) and index
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Subject Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
Spanish American literature.
Fictie.
Spaans.
Aufsatzsammlung
Littérature hispano- américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Roman.
Lateinamerika
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 90024936
ISBN 9780822398127
0822398125