He Who Searches (Latin American Literature)
"He Who Searches is as stunning a portrait of Latin America and its strange, magical realities as the portraits found in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and Carlos Fuentes' 'Terra Nostra'. And like those novels, it is also a work of universal appeal." --San Francisco Chronicle 7-19-87<br /><br />"Luisa Valenzuela explores the terrain where love and violence, erotic pleasure and death, exist perilously close to each other. . . . Valenzuela plays with words, turns them inside out, weaves them into sensuous webs." --Voice Literary Supplement<br /><br />"Luisa Valenzuela is the heiress of Latin American fiction. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her feet are naked." --Carlos Fuentes<br /><br />"This novel . . . is a prime example of contemporary Latin American fiction. Its major themes are love, identity, reality, time, existence, and death, expressed with an innovative narrative structure and point of view, through myriad symbols and against a political and feminist backdrop." --Choice 10-87<br /><br />"To read her is to enter our reality fully, where plurality surpasses the limitations of the past; to read her is to participate in a search for Latin American identity, which offers its rewards beforehand. Luisa Valenzuela's books are our present, but they also contain much of the future; there is a true resplendence, true love, true freedom on each of her pages." --Julio Cortazar