The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521532198)

Novels from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin America are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyzes in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. Indispensable to students of Latin American studies, of comparative literature and of the development of the novel as genre, the book features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.

Author: Efra? Kristal
ISBN-10: 0521532191
ISBN-13: 9780521532198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2005
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.85d