Cambridge Companion To The Latin American Novel

Novels from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin America are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Mfrquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. Indispensable to students of Latin American studies, of comparative literature and of the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.Kristal, Efraín is the author of 'Cambridge Companion To The Latin American Novel', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521825337 and ISBN 0521825334.