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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto
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| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press
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| Date: |
07/15/1999
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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This superb anthology 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 the evolution of the short story in Latin American literature, explaining why the genre has flourished there with such brilliance. 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.
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