Anibal Gonzalez is professor of modern Latin American literature in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books and several translations. His recent publications include Love and Politics in the Contempo
We have read the Latin American novel as reconfigurations of
history, ethnological recoveries, and political interventions, but
we neglected to look at the powerful undercurrents of belief,
faith, and epiphanic vision that are a true dimension of their
inner creativity. Gonzalez and his book of revelations discover
that poetic knowledge has shaped their storytelling with epiphanies
and transfiguration. Nothing of the human experience was estranged
to these fictions, not even religion."" - Julio Ortega, Brown
University
""Gonzalez, one of his generation's most accomplished scholars of
Spanish American Literature, offers a remarkable, erudite, and
imaginative re-reading of the region's modern fiction, with the
compelling argument that, culminating with the Boom, the novel
aspired to a reader experience comparable to effects generated by
what many cultures regard as 'sacred texts,' only to critique and
dismantle these aspirations in the late twentieth century and new
millennium."" - Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas
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