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Spanish-American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Spanish American fiction --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism --- -Spanish American fiction --- -Modernism (Literature) --- -Spanish American literature --- -History and criticism --- Spanish American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- Spanish American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Modernism (Literature) - Latin America

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Spanish American prose literature --- -Spanish American prose literature --- -Modernism (Literature) --- -Spanish American literature --- History and criticism --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Spanish American literature

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In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges's secularized "narrative theology" in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Jose Lezama Lima, to "sacralize" the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the "desacralization" of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.

Religion in literature. --- Latin American fiction --- Latin American literature --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- History and criticism.

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Modernismo, a literary movement of fundamental importance to Spanish America and Spain, occurred at the turn of the nineteenth century, roughly from the 1880s to the 1920s. It is widely regarded as the first Spanish-language literary movement that originated in the New World and that became influential in the "Mother Country," Spain. Characterized by the appropriation of French Symbolist aesthetics into Spanish-language literature, modernismo's other significant traits were its cultural cosmopolitanism, its philological concern with language, literary history, and literary technique, and its journalistic penchant for novelty and fashion. Despite the splendor of modernista poetry, modernismo is now understood as a broad movement whose impact was felt just as strongly in the prose genres: the short story, the novel, the essay, and the journalistic cr©đnica [chronicle]. Conceived as an introduction to modernismo as well as an account of the current state of the art of modernismo studies, this book examines the movement's contribution to the various Spanish American literary genres, its main authors [from Mart©Ư and N©Łjera to Dar©Ưo and Rod©đ], its social and historical context, and its continuing relevance to the work of contemporary Spanish American authors such as Gabriel Garc©Ưa M©Łrquez, Sergio Ram©Ưrez, aargas Llosa. AN©‍BAL GONZ©LEZ-P©œREZ is Professor of Modern Latin American Literature at Yale University.

Spanish American literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- French Symbolist aesthetics. --- Gabriel García Márquez. --- Mario Vargas Llosa. --- Modernismo. --- New World. --- Sergio Ramírez. --- Spain. --- Spanish America. --- Spanish-language literary movement. --- cultural cosmopolitanism. --- literary technique.

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Literature --- verhalende journalistiek (genre) --- journalistiek --- Latin America