The Cambridge companion to the Latin American novel Latin American novel / edited by Efraín Kristal - New York : Cambridge University Press , 2005. - xviii, 336 ; 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to literature .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-322) and index.

A stimulating collection of new essays on the development of the novel in Latin America. Novels from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin America are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyzes in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. Indispensable to students of Latin American studies, of comparative literature and of the development of the novel as genre, the book features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.

9780521532198

2005541467


Spanish American fiction----History and criticism

PQ7081 / .L37 2005

LAS 863 CAM