This work examines four Latin American writers - Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo, and Ricardo Piglia - in the context of their respective national cultural traditions. The author proposes that a consideration of tragedy affords new ways of understanding the relation between literature and the modern Latin American nation-state. As an interpretive index, this tragic attunement sheds new light on both the foundational works of modern Latin American literature and the counter-foundational literary critiques of ...
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This work examines four Latin American writers - Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo, and Ricardo Piglia - in the context of their respective national cultural traditions. The author proposes that a consideration of tragedy affords new ways of understanding the relation between literature and the modern Latin American nation-state. As an interpretive index, this tragic attunement sheds new light on both the foundational works of modern Latin American literature and the counter-foundational literary critiques of modernization and nation-building. Topics include Borges's short story "El Sur" in relation to the Argentine "civilization and barbarism" debate, Juan Rulfo's novella Pedro Paramo in the context of post-revolutionary reflection on national identity in Mexico, and the lyric poetry of Cesar Vellajo's Trilce. The reading is based on a juxtaposition of aporetically incompatible terms: mourning, the avant-garde, and Andean indigenism or messianism. The final section of the book investigates two novels by Ricardo Piglia, Respiracion artificial and La ciudad ausente, in the dual context of dictatorship and the market. Piglia's writing both echoes and marks a limit for tragedy as an interpretive paradigm. Patrick Dove is Visiting Professor of Spanish at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; A single small tear at jacket rear, jacket else VG+, now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy.
