TWO Love or Friendship? Tarzan’s Tonsillitis by Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION From Testimonial Narrative to the New Sentimental Novel: Barnet and Poniatowska 1
5. ONE Patriotic Passion: Isabel Allende’s Of Love and Shadows 40
6. TWO Love or Friendship? Tarzan’s Tonsillitis by Alfredo Bryce Echenique 62
7. THREE Journey Back to the Source of Love: García Márquez’s Of Love and Other Demons 80
8. FOUR Recipes for Romance: Laura Esquivel, Luis Sepúlveda, and Marcela Serrano 102
9. FIVE The Importance of Being Sentimental: Antonio Skármeta’s Love-Fifteen and Luis Rafael Sánchez’s La importancia de llamarse Daniel Santos 126
10. Appendix Some Spanish American Novels with Amorous or Sentimental Themes (1969–2003) 147
11. NOTES 149
12. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED 163
13. INDEX 173