Some Write to the Future

Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Auteur: Dorfman, Ariel; Shivers, George
Éditeur: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822311300
eISBN Pdf: 9780822398127
Lieu de publication: Durham , United States
Année de publication électronique: 1991
Mois : Avril
Pages: 272
DDC: 863
Langue: Anglais

Légende

Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as the novel Widows and the play Death and the Maiden. A master of various literary forms, this collection draws together Dorfman's critical essays on contemporary Latin American writing. Spanning more than twenty years and arranged in chronological order, each essay is devoted to a single author—Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, José Maria Arguedas, Alejo Carpentier, Gabrial Garcia Márquez, Roa Bastos—and one final essay looks at the "testimonial" or concentration camp literature from Chile.

Praise for Ariel Dorfman
“One of the most important voices coming out of Latin America.”—Salman Rushdie

“A remarkable writer . . . writing out of a very different cultural perspective from comfortable American readers.”—Digby Diehl, Los Angeles Herald Examiner

“One of the six greatest Latin American novelists.”—Jacobo Timmerman, Newsweek

Contents
Note on the Translations
Introduction
Men of Maize: Myth as Time and Langauge
Borges and American Violence
Fathers and Bridges Over Hell: Deep Rivers
Sandwiched Between Proust and the Mummy: Seven Notes and an Epilogue on Carpentier's Reasons of State
Political Code and Literary Code: The Testimonial Genre in Chile Today
The Rivers of Roa Bastos
Someone Writes to the Future: Meditations on Hope and Violence in Garcia Marquez
Notes
Index