Pot pourri : whistlings of an idler : a novel / by Eugenio Cambaceres ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman ; edited and with an introduction by Josefina Ludmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cambacérès, Eugenio, 1843-1890.

Contributor:

Dillman, Lisa.

Ludmer, Josefina.

Series:

Library of Latin America

Standardized Title:

Potpourri. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 144 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Cambaceres was the first to introduce naturalism to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. His work, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity, and especially for the role of the intellectual during that transition. He stressed the cultural primacy of Buenos Aires par excellence to enhance the city's evolution. The rich, wastrel narrator of Pot Pourri tells a story of marriage and adultery during the carnival celebrations. However, the couple resembled so closely an actual Buenos Aires pair that a fury arose. In explanation he wrote, "I have no desire to justify myself.... Mine are characters who exist, or could exist, as easily in Buenos Aires as in France, in Cochinchina, or in hell." A new addition to the acclaimed Library of Latin America, Pot Pourri should easily find its place with the ever-growing audience for Latin American literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195144643

0195144635

OCLC:

50204051