| Woven on the Loom of Time: Stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert Contributor(s): Anderson-Imbert, Enrique (Author), Vail, Carleton (Translator), Edwards-Mondragón, Pamela (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0292790600 ISBN-13: 9780292790605 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 90-35737 |
| Series: Texas Pan American Series |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Anderson-Imbert, Enrique: - Enrique Anderson-Imbert (1910-2000) was an Argentine author of fiction and literary criticism.Vail, Carleton: - Carleton Vail is an independent scholar and translator. |