1. The New Spanish-American Narrative

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. I. A Critical Model
5. 1. The New Spanish-American Narrative 3
6. 2. The First Letter 11
7. 3. Borges and the Latin-American Text 20
8. 4. Pedro Paramo 33
9. 5. Hopscotch 42
10. 6. Morelli on the Threshold 54
11. 7. Reading Paradiso 60
12. 8. One Hundred Years of Solitude 85
13. 9. The Autumn of the Patriarch: Text and Culture 96
14. II. The Site of the Text
15. 11. Explosion in a Cathedral 134
16. 12. A Change of Skin 147
17. 13. Three Trapped Tigers 160
18. 14. From Cuba with a Song 173
19. 15. On the Text of History 180
20. 16. A Book on Death 183
21. Index of Names 191