The Boom of the Latin American novel

King, John; Kristal, Efraín

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“…: 407). One example of Vargas Llosa's fictional narrative experimentation and King 2005). The overlapping dialogues of don Cayo Bermúdez (dictator Odría's 12 right-hand man) and don Fermín (protagonist Santiago's father); alongside Ambrosio (Bermúdez's, then Fermín's cab-driver) and Trifulcio (Ambrosio's father) ( 162), epitomises such apparently high poetic interplay.…”

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James Joyce and Mario Vargas Llosa: Meeting on the Margins

Goodridge¹

2022

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This study critiques two mainstream novelists known for their localities of Ireland and Peru as well as their long sojourns and major works set abroad. It argues that, contrary to popular, recent opinion regarding these seemingly abstruse and possibly elitist figures, both directly engage with the marginal aspects of both society and nature in intriguing and sensitive ways. Furthermore, these margins— as developed through consideration of a series of eclectic philosophical thinkers including Michel Foucault, Margarita Serje and Timothy Morton— are where the authors meet: where their writing converges. Comparison between the two hinges upon a philosophical understanding of these very margins. The writers, complex and irreducible, also seesaw between the terms that are almost always used to describe them: “modernist” and “realist”, “humorous” and “serious”, “local” and “global”, terms which I believe require renewed and nuanced consideration and recasting in the light of this comparison. Through a combination of close-readings and integrated theoretical analysis, I argue that Joyce and Vargas Llosa meet on the margins of: modern society, the environment, and their political contexts, producing some of the most timeless works of twentieth-century fiction as a result.

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James Joyce and Mario Vargas Llosa: Meeting on the Margins

Goodridge¹

2022

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“…En juxtaposant le réel et le magique sans antagonisme apparent, le réalisme magique sape de l'intérieur les modèles européens de réalisme et de surréalisme en fournissant une vraisemblance alternative qui ne produit pas l'opposition binaire entre fait et fi ction de la rationalité européenne. L'émergence du réalisme magique dans le contexte sud-américain doit aussi être conçue dans sa relation à un romantisme valorisant des valeurs, des croyances et des connaissances indigènes ou créoles et qui a donné naissance à une littérature dont le centre était occupé par la négociation entre les visions du monde coloniales et locales (Faris, 2004 ;King, 2005). Ce qui précède engendre donc la possibilité de souligner l'existence d'une géographie imaginaire de l'Amérique du Sud dont les bases discursives restent inextricablement liées aux événements historiques, au contexte culturel et politique, ainsi qu'à la performativité des procédés textuels et des représentations artistiques.…”

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La représentation de l’Amérique du Sud dans l’oeuvre de Luis Sepulveda

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Tavares

2009

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RésuméCet article explore la relation entre genre littéraire et géographie imaginaire de l’espace sud-américain à travers deux romans du Chilien Luis Sepulveda :Le neveu d’Amérique(1996) etUn nom de torero(1994). Nous postulons que la représentation du sous-continent véhiculée par ces romans est le résultat de l’interaction entre les règles suggérées par le genre littéraire choisi par l’auteur et le mode du réalisme magique communément associé à la littérature sud-américaine. Nous concluons en ouvrant une porte sur la diffusion de cette représentation dans les discours de la critique populaire sur les deux romans.

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“…Indeed, by juxtaposing real and fantastic elements without apparent antagonism, magical realist texts undermine the European modes of realism and surrealism from within, creating an alternative verisimilitude that does not rely on the binary between fact and fiction characteristic of European rationality. The emergence of magical realist texts in the South American context must also be considered in relation to a wave of romantic primitivism which saw the valorisation of indigenous (or Creole) sensibilities, beliefs, folklore and knowledge, and gave rise to literature that works through the creative tension between colonial and indigenous world‐views (King 2005; Faris 2004). Thus, from the brief discussion above, it becomes possible to point to the existence of an imaginative geography of South America whose discursive basis is deeply intertwined with historical events, cultural and political contexts, and the generative process of textual and artistic representation.…”

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Forcing the boundaries of genre: the imaginative geography of South America in Luis Sepulveda's Patagonia Express

Tavares

Bel

2007

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This article considers how literary genre conditions the influence of imaginative geographies on textual representations of place and space. Focusing on a central case study, it argues that the representation of South America in Luis Sepulveda's popular travelogue Patagonia Express is the product of interplay between two competing forces:the boundaries imposed by the travelogue genre and a widely-circulated imaginative geography of South America as a space where 'the fantastic' or magical is inherent to everyday reality.

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The Boom of the Latin American novel

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James Joyce and Mario Vargas Llosa: Meeting on the Margins

James Joyce and Mario Vargas Llosa: Meeting on the Margins

La représentation de l’Amérique du Sud dans l’oeuvre de Luis Sepulveda

Forcing the boundaries of genre: the imaginative geography of South America in Luis Sepulveda's Patagonia Express

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