Myth and Archive
Subtitle: A Theory of Latin American Narrative
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780822321941
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Semiotics & Theory; Latin American fiction; Latin American Novel And Short Story; Theory Of Literature; Theory, etc; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Literary Criticism; South America; Anthropology - Cultural; Caribbean & Latin American; Latin America - South America; History, Latin American; Literary Studies/American Lite; History and criticism; Myth in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
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.