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This book brings together Ortega’s most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, García Márquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.

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Ortega offers a work of superb scholarship, an original and sensitive book indispensable for understanding the contemporary Spanish American novel. * Choice *
... a philosophically alert, historically engaged, and linguistically focused cultural banquet. * Hispania *

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. A Critical Model
  • 1. The New Spanish-American Narrative
  • 2. The First Letter
  • 3. Borges and the Latin-American Text
  • 4. Pedro Páramo
  • 5. Hopscotch
  • 6. Morelli on the Threshold
  • 7. Reading Paradiso
  • 8. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • 9. The Autumn of the Patriarch: Text and Culture
  • II. The Site of the Text
  • 10. The Site of the Text
  • 11. Explosion in a Cathedral
  • 12. A Change of Skin
  • 13. Three Trapped Tigers
  • 14. From Cuba with a Song
  • 15. On the Text of History
  • 16. A Book on Death
  • Index of Names

Poetics of Change The New SpanishAmerican

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    A Paperback by Julio Ortega, Galen D. Greaser

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292765085, 978-0292765085
      ISBN10: 0292765088

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book brings together Ortega’s most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, García Márquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.

      Trade Review
      Ortega offers a work of superb scholarship, an original and sensitive book indispensable for understanding the contemporary Spanish American novel. * Choice *
      ... a philosophically alert, historically engaged, and linguistically focused cultural banquet. * Hispania *

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • I. A Critical Model
      • 1. The New Spanish-American Narrative
      • 2. The First Letter
      • 3. Borges and the Latin-American Text
      • 4. Pedro Páramo
      • 5. Hopscotch
      • 6. Morelli on the Threshold
      • 7. Reading Paradiso
      • 8. One Hundred Years of Solitude
      • 9. The Autumn of the Patriarch: Text and Culture
      • II. The Site of the Text
      • 10. The Site of the Text
      • 11. Explosion in a Cathedral
      • 12. A Change of Skin
      • 13. Three Trapped Tigers
      • 14. From Cuba with a Song
      • 15. On the Text of History
      • 16. A Book on Death
      • Index of Names

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