Myth and Archive
Subtitle: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 28, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780521306829
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin American Novel And Short Story; Spanish; Literary Criticism; Latin America; Myth in literature; Caribbean & Latin American; Latin American fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; History and criticism; General; Latin American fiction; Narration (Rhetoric); Theory, etc
First sentence: After a painful journey away from the modern world, the protagonist of Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos (1953) reaches Santa Monica de los Venados, the town founded by the Adelantado, one of his traveling companions.