| Description |
viii, 150 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 133-143. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Latin American narrative and literary genres -- Machado de Assis: satire and madness -- Machado de Assis: narrating and lying -- Adolfo Bioy Casares: satire and self-portrait -- Adolfo Bioy Casares: the lying compass -- Severo Sarduy: vital signs -- Julio Cortázar: self-explanation and self-destruction -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante: the vast fragment -- Joāo Guimarāes Rosa: Honneur des hommes -- Gabriel Garcia Márquez: a commodius vicus of recirculation -- Juan Rulfo: the secular myth -- Manuel Puig: things as they are -- Juan Carlos Onetti and José Lezama Lima: a double portrait of the artist -- José Donoso: endgame. |
| Subject |
Latin American fiction -- History and criticism.
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Latin American fiction. |
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Satire -- History and criticism.
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Satire. |
| ISBN |
0226499936 |
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9780226499932 |
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