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Lives on the line : The testimony of contemporary Latin American authors / edited and with an introduction by Doris Meyer.
LIBRA PQ7081 .A1 1989 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Literature and society--Latin America.
- Literature and society.
- Latin America.
- Authors, Latin American--Biography.
- Authors, Latin American.
- Genre:
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 314 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 1989, 1988.
- Contents:
- Maturity / Jorge Luis Borges
- Literature and political awareness in Latin America / Alejo Carpentier
- Since one feels obliged to write
- / Clarice Lispector
- My first books / Pablo Neruda
- Questions and realities / Miguel Angel Asturias
- Woman's past and present / Victoria Ocampo
- English profanities / Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Letter to Roberto Fernández Retamar / Julio Cortázar
- Early writings / Rosario Castellanos
- Afterword / Herberto Padilla
- Words of greeting / Nicolás Guillén
- Central and eccentric writing / Carlos Fuentes
- Social commitment and the Latin American writer / Mario Vargas Llosa
- And here's to you, Jesusa / Elena Poniatowska
- To write is not to live / Lêdo Ivo
- The telltale mirror / Octavio Paz
- Ithaca : the impossible return / José Donoso
- The myth of creation / Nélida Piñon
- Closing address / Ernesto Cardenal
- The writer's kitchen / Rosario Ferré
- The solitude of Latin America / Gabriel García Márquez
- The spirits were willing / Isabel Allende
- List of errata / Manuel Scorza
- A generation on the move / Antonio Skármeta
- The truth of invention / Lygia Fagundes Telles
- Writing : a metaphor for exile / Augusto Roa Bastos
- Poetry and the temptations of power / Pablo Antonio Cuadra
- A legacy of poets and cannibals : literature revives in Argentina / Luisa Valenzuela
- On being a writer in Peru and other places / Isaac Goldemberg
- The writer's commitment / Claribel Alegría.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1988.
- Bibliography: pages 313-314.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0520067940
- 9780520067943
- OCLC:
- 21595296
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