Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 ReviewOrtega 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
