{"product_id":"woven-on-the-loom-of-time-book-enrique-anderson-imbert-9780292790605","title":"Woven on the Loom of Time","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346563895569,"sku":"CIN0292790600G","price":13.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0292790600.jpg?v=1763484672","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/woven-on-the-loom-of-time-book-enrique-anderson-imbert-9780292790605","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}