Some Write to the Future
Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction
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Some Write to the Future
Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction
About This Book
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 authorâMiguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, JosĂ© Maria Arguedas, Alejo Carpentier, Gabrial Garcia MĂĄrquez, Roa Bastosâand 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."âSalman Rushdie
"A remarkable writer... writing out of a very different cultural perspective from comfortable American readers."âDigby Diehl, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
"One of the six greatest Latin American novelists."âJacobo Timmerman, Newsweek
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Table of contents
- 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