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Onetti, Puig and Valenzuela, writers linked by their common geography and history, share and explore a post-colonial emptiness, a constant questioning of realism and a love of tango. Onetti, Puig and Valenzuela have not had the same level of international acclaim as Borges, García Márquez or Vargas Llosa, but they are equally intellectually challenging, and their work adds much to the breadth and depth of twentieth-century Latin American literature. This book starts with Onetti's first novella, the intricate, fragmented El pozo, and finishes with Valenzuela's Cola de lagartija, a strange, quasi-baroque work of darkhumour and powerful political overtones. It has separate sections on each of the three writers, which balance close readings of selected passages with tightly woven theoretical analysis. The fact that this set of texts is from a specific time and place, the Cono Sur from 1939 to 1983, gives the work intellectual coherence; and it is methodologically consistent in its use of a set of co-ordinates from, amongst other sources, psychoanalytic and feminist theory, from Lacan, Irigaray and Kristeva, which are integrated into the vision of the novels as they are analysed. Onetti, Puig and Valenzuela are seldom viewed together, but Craig argues that their common geography and historyare crucial, and that these particular writers share and explore in their work a post-colonial emptiness, a constant questioning of realism and a love of tango. LINDA CRAIG is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of East London.

Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Authors, Spanish American --- Onetti, Juan Carlos, --- Puig, Manuel --- Valenzuela, Luisa, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Spanish American authors --- Authors, Latin American --- Puig, Juan Manuel --- פואיג, מנואל --- Puig Delledonne, Juan Manuel --- Delledonne, Juan Manuel Puig --- Onetti, J. C. --- Dólter, Johnny, --- Periquito, --- Ramos, H. C., --- J. C. O. --- O., J. C. --- Onetti, Khuan Karlos,

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La pulsión mimética, tomada en su sentido lato de principio que se manifiesta en cualquier tipo de relación humana, es una preocupación constante en la obra del autor argentino Manuel Puig (1932-1990). En este estudio, que presenta un riguroso análisis de cuatro novelas - Boquitas pintadas, The Buenos Aires Affair, Maldición eterna a quien lea estas páginas y Cae la noche tropical - se examina el complejo vínculo entre las dimensiones psicológicas, sociológicas, poéticas y epistemológicas de esta mímesis tan fundamental como inasible. Comprender mejor la colisión de lógicas entre transparencia y opacidad que emerge de la escritura de Puig, contribuye a arrojar luz sobre el universo del autor argentino, al tiempo que permite penetrar en el paradigma paradójico que rige amplios sectores de la posmodernidad.

Puig, Manuel --- Mimesis in literature. --- Mimésis dans la littérature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 860 "19" PUIG, MANUEL --- Spaanse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--PUIG, MANUEL --- 860 "19" PUIG, MANUEL Spaanse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--PUIG, MANUEL --- Mimésis dans la littérature --- Mimesis in literature --- Representation (Literature) --- Imitation in literature --- Realism in literature --- Puig, Juan Manuel --- פואיג, מנואל --- Puig Delledonne, Juan Manuel --- Delledonne, Juan Manuel Puig --- Puig, Manuel - Criticism and interpretation.