The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonz?lez Echevarria (

Description: The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto González Echevarria Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description This anthology includes texts from the colonial period and encompasses both Spanish American and Brazilian authors. It provides a sampling of Latin Americas authors, such as Quiroga, Borges, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Guimaraes Rosa, and Asturias, as well as Clarice Lispector, Calvert Casey, and Maria Luisa Bombal. Publisher Description When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and spectacular appearance itself seemed magical. In fact, Latin American literature has a long and rich tradition that reaches back to the Colonial period and is filled with remarkable writers too little known in theEnglish-speaking world. The short story has been a central part of this tradition, from Fray Bartolome de las Casas narrative protests against the Spanish Conquistadors abuses of Indians, to the worldrenowned Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges, to the contemporary works of such masters as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rosario Ferre, and others. Now, in The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, editor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria brings together fifty-three stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. In his fascinating introduction, Gonzalez Echevarria traces theevolution of the short story in Latin American literature, explaining why the genre has flourished there with such brilliance, and illuminating the various cultural and literary tensions that resolve themselves in "magicalrealism." The stories themselves exhibit all the inventiveness, the luxuriousness of language, the wild metaphoric leaps and uncanny conjunctions of the ordinary with the fantastic that have given the Latin American short story its distinctive and unforgettable flavor: From the Joycean subtlety of Machado de Assiss "Midnight Mass," to the brutal parable of Julio Ramon Ribeyros "Featherless Buzzards," to the startling disorientation of Alejo Carpentiers "Journey Back to the Source," (whichis told backwards, because a sorcerer has waved his wand and made time flow in reverse), to the haunting reveries of Maria Luisa Bombals "The Tree." Readers familiar with only the most popular LatinAmerican writers will be delighted to discover many exciting new voices here, including Catalina de Erauso, Ricardo Palma, Rubin Dario, Augusto Roa Bastos, Christina Peri Rossi, along with Borges, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Cortazar, Vargas Llosa, and many others. Gonzalez Echevarria also provides brief and extremely helpful headnotes for the each selection, discussing the authors influences, major works, and central themes.Short story lovers will find a wealth ofsatisfactions here, in terrains both familiar and uncharted. But the unique strength of The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories is that it allows us to see the connections between writers from Peru toPuerto Rico and from the sixteenth century to the present--and thus to view in a single, unprecedented volume one of the most diverse and fertile literary landscapes in the world. Author Biography Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures, Yale University. He is the author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative and coeditor of theCambridge History of Latin American Literature. Details ISBN 0195130855 ISBN-13 9780195130850 Title The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Author Roberto González Echevarria Format Paperback Year 1999 Pages 496 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:6802452; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. 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