About the Author

Ignacio López-Vicuña is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Vermont. He has published articles on Southern Cone writers and filmmakers, including Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Ruiz. His work has appeared in journals such as Latin American Research Review, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, and Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

Andreea Marinescu is associate professor of Spanish at Colorado College. She has published several articles on the relationship between politics and art in the works of Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Ruiz.

Reviews

This collection of eight carefully thought-out essays and three important interviews covers many aspects of Ruiz's prodigious production. It shows that Ruiz's work cannot be reduced to film-making, no matter how refined or avant-garde; that it is rather, from its modest beginnings to its end, a work on the image whose context is a generalized intermediality and whose thrust is the ongoing, ceaseless production of an image of thought of relentless originality and power. It is an essential supplement to critical bibliography on Raúl Ruiz.--Alberto Moreiras "Texas A&M University"