Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-247) and index.
Contents
Men of maize : myth as time and language -- Borges and American violence -- Fathers and bridges over hell : Deep rivers -- Sandwiched between Proust and the mummy : seven notes and an epilogue on Carpentier's Reasons of state -- Political code and literary code : the testimonial genre in Chile today -- Rivers of Roa Bastos -- Someone writes to the future : meditations on hope and violence in Garcia Marquez.