Woven on the Loom of Time: Stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780292790605)

Argentinian scholar and writer Enrique Anderson-Imbert is familiar to many North American students for his La Literatura de Am駻ica 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, Cort痙ar, S畸ato, and Ocampo. In this anthology, Carleton Vail and Pamela Edwards-Mondrag 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 Juli疣, 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.

Author: Enrique Anderson-Imbert
ISBN-10: 0292790600
ISBN-13: 9780292790605
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1991
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d