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Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.

Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent decades, seems marked by its self-reflexivity, by its playful relationship to history and the everyday, and by its concerns with the ways in which language works. But is it, Borinsky asks, really a literature whose primary goal is to raise metafictional questions about writing and reading? While the effects of this literature include dismantling the illusions of realism, naturalism, and historicism, the haunting and disturbing energy of its major works lies in their capacity of invoke a region beyond literature through literature.

Theoretical Fables progresses by way of close readings of the works of eight canonical--and not quite canonical--Latin American Authors. Borinsky argues that the Latin American "theoretical fable" has its origins in the work of the early twentieth-century Argentinean writer Macedonio Fernndez. In this light she studies the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Mrquez, Julio Cortzar, Jos Donoso, Adolfo Bioy Cesares, Manuel Puig, and Maria Luisa Bombal.

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  • Title Theoretical Fables: The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Literature
  • Author Alicia Borinsky
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Text is Free of
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA
  • Publication date 1993-10-29
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780812232349 / 0812232348
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.44 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.12 cm)
  • Reading level 1330
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93-26561
  • Dewey Decimal Code 863

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Alicia Borinsky is Professor of Spanish at Boston University.
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