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The Fruits of Parasitism: Unraveling Enrique Vila-Matas’s Bartleby & Co. and Montano’s Malady
Novelist Enrique Vila-Matas might just think literature is a disease and himself a parasite of it. Scott Esposito discusses why this has let him write some of the most innovative fiction published today. [more]
The Literary Alchemy of César Aira
César Aira tosses absurd ideas into his novels by the handful and never bothers to revise or even edit. Marcelo Ballvé argues this method has pushed him to the forefront of the Argentine literary scene. [more]
My Own Private Mexico
It’s a shame Rodrigo Fresán’s Mantra hasn’t been translated into English, argues Javier Moreno. The book has mutated with each of its four translations, and a fifth would add new readings to the preceding four. Not to mention, English readers should know about Fresán’s continuously expanding inventory of all things we thought were Mexican but aren’t and his ethological study of sea monkeys in captivity (their natural habitat). [more]
Story, History, or Historia?
In Mexico, José Emilio Pacheco’s The Battles in the Desert is read by everyone from rock stars to high school students. In it, they find such typically Mexican concerns as memory, history, and national identity in a multicultural society. Elizabeth Wadell discusses how, for American readers, these matters don’t sound very foreign after all. [more]
Bond, In Mexico: An Homage to an Homage
The Mexican Revolution is a solemn touchstone of Mexican letters. Matt Bowman shows why Mexican author Jorge Ibargüengoitia has satirized and subverted it, and why he wishes more authors would follow in his steps. [more]
Life is Freedom: The Art of Vasily Grossman
The continued obscurity of the Soviet author Vasily Grossman is not easy to understand after one has spent any time with his writing, but a few conjectures come to mind. His masterpiece, Life and Fate, was published in the United States in 1985, and in 1985, the year that Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of [...] [more]
Beyond Neruda: Linking Three of Latin America’s Best Poets
John Herbert Cunningham charts the links between the careers and writings of three of Latin America’s best poets. [more]
Winter 2008
reviews
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Vibrator
The Maias
God Is Dead
The Meat and Spirit Plan
Partial List of People to Bleach
Sons and Other Flammable Objects
How to Read a Novel
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
Everything Is Miscellaneous
Interviews
The Charles D’Ambrosio Interview
The Pascale Ferran Interview
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