Woven on the Loom of Time : : Stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert / / Enrique Anderson-Imbert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Anderson-Imbert, Enrique,
• TeilnehmendeR: Edwards-Mondragón, Pamela.; Vail, Carleton.; de Izaguirre, Ester.
• MitwirkendeR: Izaguirre, Ester de,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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)