Myth and Archive
Subtitle: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780521023993
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Language; Latin America; Caribbean & Latin American; Latin American fiction--History and criticism; Latin American fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc; Literary Criticism & Collections / Central & South American; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General
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.