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Author Weiss, Jason, 1955-

Title The lights of home : a century of Latin American writers in Paris / Jason Weiss.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2003.

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 Moore Stacks  PQ7081.3 .W45 2003    Available  ---
Description x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index.
Contents Introduction: The lure of Paris -- The voyage out (1893-1939) -- The French reception -- Writers' beginnings (Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfredo Bryce Echenique) -- Clarifying sojourns (Octavio Paz, Alejandra Pizarnik) -- Diplomatic pastures (Miguel Angel Asturias, Pablo Neruda, Alejo Carpentier) -- Tradition of pilgramage: the dream city -- Interstitial spaces (Julio Cortázar) -- Transgressive gestures / (Severo Sarduy, Copi) -- Outside looking in: Paris, city of exiles -- The privileged eye: writing from a distance (Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Juan José Saer) -- Tsuris of the margins (Luisa Futoransky) -- Living another language: the problem of audience community -- The translated self (Edgardo Coazarinsky) -- New world transplants: foreigners in French (Eduardo Manet, Silvia Baron Supervielle) -- Académicien (Hector Bianciotti) -- Conclusion: the lights of home.
Provenance Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection
Subject Authors, Spanish American -- 20th century -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris.
Authors, Spanish American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject France.
France -- Paris.
Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Spanish American literature.
Spanish American literature -- Appreciation -- France.
Spanish American literature -- Appreciation.
Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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