Title: The great Latin American novel /
Authors: Fuentes, Carlos,; Riley, Brendan,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Latin American fiction History and criticism.; Latin American fiction
Abstract: "One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day. Combining historical perspective with personal and often opinionated interpretation, Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado de Assis to Borges and beyond. A landmark analysis, as well as a scintillating and often wry commentary on a great author's peers and influences, this book is as much a contribution to Latin American literature as it is a chronicle of that literature's greatest achievements" --
Contents: Pre-Iberian foreword -- Discovery and conquest -- Colonial culture -- From colony to independence: Machado de Assis -- Rómulo Gallegos: impersonal nature -- The Mexican revolution -- Borges: silver from the river plate -- Upriver: Alejo Carpentier -- Onetti -- Julio Cortázar and the smile of Erasmus -- José Lezama Lima: word and body of the baroque -- García Márquez: second reading -- A time without heroes: Vargas Llosa -- José Donoso: from boom to boomerang -- The boomerang -- The post-boom -- The crack -- The post-boom -- Nélida Piñon in the republic of dreams -- Juan Goytisolo: persona grata -- First Mexican finale: a quintet of queens -- Second Mexican finale: three jacks -- A final word.