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Woven on the loom of time / stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert ; selected and translated by Carleton Vail and Pamela Edwards-Mondragon ; introduction by Ester de Izaguirre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson Imbert, Enrique, 1910-2000, author.
- Series:
- Texas Pan American series.
- The Texas Pan American series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anderson Imbert, Enrique, 1910-2000--Translations into English.
- Anderson Imbert, Enrique.
- Argentina--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Argentina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Selections from The Cheshire Cat (1965)
- Selections from The Swindler Retires (1969)
- Selections from Madness Plays at Chess (1971)
- Selections from Klein's Bottle (1971)
- Selections from Two Women and One Julian (1982)
- Selections from The Size of the Witches (1985)
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-292-75320-9
- OCLC:
- 941697487
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