Woven on the Loom of Time by Enrique Anderson-Imbert
Argentinian scholar and writer Enrique Anderson-Imbert is familiar to many North American students for his La Literatura de Am rica Latina I and I, 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, Cort zar, S bato, and Ocampo. In this anthology, Carleton Vail and Pamela Edwards-Mondrag n 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 Juli n, 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.
Carleton Vail is an independent scholar and translator. Pamela Edwards-Mondragón is head of the English and Spanish departments at Converse International School of Languages in San Diego, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780292790605 |
| ISBN 10 | 0292790600 |
| Title | Woven on the Loom of Time |
| Author | Enrique Anderson Imbert |
| Series | Texas Pan American Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press |
| Year published | 1991-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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