Title: La crisis de la modernidad
First published: 1997
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.
LC classification: MLCS 98/04919 (P)