Woven on the Loom of Time : : Stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert / / Enrique Anderson-Imbert.
Argentinian scholar and writer Enrique Anderson-Imbert is familiar to many North American students for his La Literatura de América Latina I and II, which are widely used in college Spanish courses. But Anderson-Imbert is also a noted creative writer, whose use of "magical realism" helped...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Texas Pan American Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Selections from The Cheshire Cat (1965) -- Selections from The Swindler Retires (1969) -- Selections from Madness Plays at Chess (1971) -- Selections from Klein's Bottle (1971) -- Selections from Two Women and One Julian (1982) -- Selections from The Size of the Witches (1985) |
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Summary: | Argentinian scholar and writer Enrique Anderson-Imbert is familiar to many North American students for his La Literatura de América Latina I and II, which are widely used in college Spanish courses. But Anderson-Imbert is also a noted creative writer, whose use of "magical realism" helped pave the way for such writers as Borges, Cortázar, Sábato, and Ocampo. In this anthology, Carleton Vail and Pamela Edwards-Mondragón have chosen stories from the period 1965 to 1985 to introduce English-speaking readers to the creative work of Enrique Anderson-Imbert. Representative stories from the collections The Cheshire Cat, The Swindler Retires, Madness Plays at Chess, Klein's Bottle, Two Women and One Julián, and The Size of the Witches illustrate Anderson-Imbert's unique style and world view. Many are "short short" stories, which Anderson-Imbert calls casos (instances). The range of subjects and points of view varies widely, challenging such "realities" as time and space, right and wrong, science and religion. In a prologue, Anderson-Imbert tells an imaginary reader, "Each one of my stories is a closed entity, brief because it has caught a single spasm of life in a single leap of fantasy. Only a reading of all my stories will reveal my world-view." The reader asks, "And are you sure that it is worth the trouble?" Anderson-Imbert replies, "No." The unexpected, ironic ending is one of the great pleasures of reading Enrique Anderson-Imbert. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780292753204 9783110745351 |
DOI: | 10.7560/790544 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Enrique Anderson-Imbert. |