Description
Book SynopsisIn this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works.
Trade ReviewSeymour Menton has produced not only a scholarly, engaging, and very readable study of the 'new historical novel' but also a fresh and comprehensive overview of the contemporary Latin American novel in general. . . . Original in scope and perspective, eloquent in presentation, this volume would be a valuable and significant addition to any Latin Americanist's library. * Hispanic American Historical Review *
Scholars and students of contemporary Latin American narrative will be made aware of recent fiction not yet discussed in English-language criticism or, for that matter, at any length in Spanish-language criticism. Menton opens up a significant new area for further critical inquiry. * Review: Latin American Literature and Arts *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prependix: Chronology of the Latin American Historical Novel, 1949–1992
- 1. Latin America’s New Historical Novel
- 2. Mario Vargas Llosa’s War on Fanaticism
-
La guerra del fin del mundo, with a Coda on José J. Veiga’s A casca da serpente
- 3. Abel Posse’s Denunciation of Power
- 4. The Instant Canonization of a Bakhtinian Symphony
- Fernando del Paso’s Noticias del imperio
- 5. The Bolívar Quartette, or Varieties of Historical Fiction
- Gabriel García Márquez’s El general en su laberinto
- Fernando Cruz Kronfly’s La ceniza del Libertador
- Alvaro Mutis’s “El último rostro”
- Germán Espinosa’s Sinfonía desde el Nuevo Mundo
- 6. Bending the Rules, or The Art of Subversion
- Ricardo Piglia’s Respiración artificial
- 7. Over Two Thousand Years of Exile and Marginality—The Jewish Latin American Historical Novel
- Pedro Orgambide’s Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del nuevo mundo
- Moacyr Scliar’s A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes
- Homero Aridjis’s 1492: Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla Angelina Muñiz’s Tierra adentro
- 8. La campaña by Carlos Fuentes
-
Crónica de una guerra denunciada, or Chronicle of a War Retold
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
