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The Monstered Self by Eduardo González achieves a level of clarity, aesthetic insight and intellectual power that are scarce in criticism at any time and have been sadly lacking in Latin American literary criticism. With this book we have commentary worthy of Borges, Cortazar, Vargas Llosa and company. . . . González gives new meaning to intertextuality through his commentary. Point of view, narrator, narrative voice are all inadequate terms when dealing with postmodernism; monstered self is uniquely apt."—Mario J. Valdés, University of Toronto
"A haunting meditation on death and narrative, with suggestive readings of Borges, Cortázar, and Roa Bastos. A major contribution to the study of modern Spanish American narrative."—Daniel Balderston, Tulane University
"Working at the intersection of mythography, psychoanalysis and Latin American narrative, Eduardo González has written a brilliant book. In the Hispanic field I can think of no one who compares fairly with his sheer range and mastery of these fields of research."—Enrico Mario Santí, Georgetown University
