CHAPTER 4 Epistolary Fiction and Intellectual Life in a Shattered Culture: Ricardo Piglia and John Barth

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER 1 Conquest of the New Word: U.S. Experimental Fiction, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the Latin American Boom 11
6. CHAPTER 2 Primers of Power: Nelson Marra's "El guardaespalda" and the Uruguayan Military 37
7. CHAPTER 3 Cutting Up History: The Uses of Aleatory Fiction in Teresa Porzecanski and Harry Mathews 76
8. CHAPTER 4 Epistolary Fiction and Intellectual Life in a Shattered Culture: Ricardo Piglia and John Barth 99
9. CHAPTER 5 Letters from Nowhere: Epistolary Fiction and Feminine Identity—Fanny Howe, Silvia Schmid, Lydia Davis, and Manuel Puig 142
10. CHAPTER 6 Rioting Degree Zero: Radical Skepticism and the Retreat from Politics—Jorge Luis Borges, Luisa Valenzuela, Kathy Acker, and William Burroughs 195
11. Notes 257
12. Bibliography 277
13. Index 287