La crisis de la modernidad
Subtitle: auto sacramental
By: Armando Luigi Castañeda.
Edition: 1. ed. en español.
Series: Narrativa; Narrativa (Editorial Memorias de Altagracia)
Publisher: Editorial Troya; Editorial Memorias de Altagracia; Grupo Editorial Eclepsidra
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Caracas
Language: spa
Number of pages: 132
Description: "This is a short but dense novel that epitomizes postmodern writing in contemporary Venezuelan literature. Castañeda uses Bocaccio's and Cervantes' views on the novel to justify the mixing of many rhetoric conventions, enhancing the artificiality of literature in a text that parodies an interpretive essay but deviates onto different paths, some not quite successful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.