These thoughtfully assembled writings by many of Latin America's finest authors bear first-person witness to the personal, social, and political situation of the writer and of literature in Latin America. At different times ironic, impassioned, humorous, reflective, autobiographical, polemical, and always vivid and engaging, this collection of writings is indispensable to a full appreciation of the achievement of twentieth-century Latin American literature.
- ISBN10 0520060024
- ISBN13 9780520060029
- Publish Date 26 April 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 November 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 314
- Language English