The Great Latin American Novel Politics ” an unexpected event—the woman

” an unexpected event—the woman he lives with leaves him—will begin a whirlwind of nonsense and diffi- culties that will lead him to the edge of the abyss

Miss MacIntosh herself

not even his mother

he’s also been a soldier

and fell in with loosely-defined group of experimental English novelists that included B

The Great Latin American Novel Politics ” an unexpected event—the womanCombining historical perspective with personal and often opinionated interpretation, Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado de Assis to Borges and beyond. A landmark analysis, as well as a scintillating and often wry commentary on a great authors peers and influences One of the late Carlos Fuentess final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day. Combining