Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A clearing in the jungle: from Santa Mónica to Macondo
- 2 The law of the letter: Garcilaso's Comentarios
- 3 A lost world re-discovered: Sarmiento's Facundo and E. da Cunha's Os Sertões
- 4 The novel as myth and archive: ruins and relics of Tlön
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A clearing in the jungle: from Santa Mónica to Macondo
- 2 The law of the letter: Garcilaso's Comentarios
- 3 A lost world re-discovered: Sarmiento's Facundo and E. da Cunha's Os Sertões
- 4 The novel as myth and archive: ruins and relics of Tlön
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Myth and ArchiveA Theory of Latin American Narrative, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990