The Cambridge Companion To The Latin American Novel (cambridge Companions To Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and everevolving tradition of novels, many of which 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´ıa Marquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation. Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 THE CAMBRIDGE C O M PA N I O N T O T H E L AT I N AMERICAN NOVEL EDITED BY E F R A I´ N K R I S TA L University of California, Los Angeles Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 c a m b r i d g e u n i v e rs i t y p r e s s ˜ Paulo Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521825337
C Cambridge University Press 2005 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2005 Reprinted 2006 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library isbn-13 978-0-521-82533-7 hardback isbn-10 0-521-82533-4 hardback isbn-13 978-0-521-53219-8 paperback isbn-10 0-521-53219-1 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 CONTENTS Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Note on translations Chronology Introduction e f r a ı´ n k r i s ta l page vii xi xii xiii 1 Part I: History 1 The nineteenth-century Latin American novel n ao m i l i n d s t ro m 23 2 The regional novel and beyond brian gollnick 44 3 The Boom of the Latin American novel jo h n k i n g 59 4 The Post-Boom novel p h i l i p swa n s o n 81 Part II: H