Foundational Fictions
Subtitle: The National Romances of Latin America (Latin American Literature and Culture, No 8)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 2, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780520082854
Subjects: Cultural studies; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Portuguese; Spanish; Central America; South America; Caribbean & Latin American; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; Latin America - General
First sentence: When Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortazar, among others, apparently burst onto the world literary scene in the 1960s, they told us categorically and repeatedly how little there was worth reading in earlier Latin American fiction.