{"product_id":"the-oxford-book-of-latin-american-short-stories","title":"The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 15-07-1999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195130850\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous \"Boom\" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and spectacular appearance itself seemed magical.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn fact, Latin American literature has a long and rich tradition that reaches back to the Colonial period and is filled with remarkable writers too little known in the English-speaking world. The short story has been a central part of this tradition, from Fray Bartolome de las Casas' narrative\u003cbr\u003e\nprotests against the Spanish Conquistadors' abuses of Indians, to the world renowned Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges, to the contemporary works of such masters as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rosario Ferre, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNow, in The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, editor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria brings together fifty-three stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. In his fascinating introduction, Gonzalez Echevarria traces the\u003cbr\u003e\nevolution of the short story in Latin American literature, explaining why the genre has flourished there with such brilliance, and illuminating the various cultural and literary tensions that resolve themselves in \"magical realism.\" The stories themselves exhibit all the inventiveness, the\u003cbr\u003e\nluxuriousness of language, the wild metaphoric leaps and uncanny conjunctions of the ordinary with the fantastic that have given the Latin American short story its distinctive and unforgettable flavor: From the Joycean subtlety of Machado de Assis's \"Midnight Mass,\" to the brutal parable of Julio\u003cbr\u003e\nRamon Ribeyro's \"Featherless Buzzards,\" to the startling disorientation of Alejo Carpentier's \"Journey Back to the Source,\" (which is told backwards, because a sorcerer has waved his wand and made time flow in reverse), to the haunting reveries of Maria Luisa Bombal's \"The Tree.\" Readers familiar\u003cbr\u003e\nwith only the most popular Latin American writers will be delighted to discover many exciting new voices here, including Catalina de Erauso, Ricardo Palma, Rubin Dario, Augusto Roa Bastos, Christina Peri Rossi, along with Borges, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Cortazar, Vargas Llosa, and many others.\u003cbr\u003e\nGonzalez Echevarria also provides brief and extremely helpful headnotes for the each selection, discussing the author's influences, major works, and central themes.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nShort story lovers will find a wealth of satisfactions here, in terrains both familiar and uncharted. But the unique strength of The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories is that it allows us to see the connections between writers from Peru to Puerto Rico and from the sixteenth century to the\u003cbr\u003e\npresent--and thus to view in a single, unprecedented volume one of the most diverse and fertile literary landscapes in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195130850\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50249294709040,"sku":"Trans_9780571132621","price":1575.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/91WyukCMMLL.jpg?v=1761552323","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-oxford-book-of-latin-american-short-stories","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}