The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

by Efraín Kristal

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 García Márquez, 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literature

360 pages, Paperback

First published May 26, 2005

Reviews

[M Duncan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant resource. I can't imagine that a more comprehensive study on the Latin American novel would be possible.