The Spanish American Regional Novel
Subtitle: Modernity and Autochthony (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 24, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521372107
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Latin American Novel And Short Story; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Spanish; Language; Latin America; Regionalism in literature; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Spanish American fiction--20th century--Histo; Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism; History and criticism; 20th century; Spanish American fiction
First sentence: In a remarkable piece called "The Argentine Writer and Tradition" - a title not unrelated to that of T. S. Eliot's powerful and enduring essay - Borges attempted to come to terms with the then contested issue of writing within a national literary tradition.