...J.P.D. Spanish-American Literature in Translation . Volume I: A Selection of Prose, Poetry, and Drama before 1888 . Edited by Jones Willis Knapp . New York , 1966 . Frederick Ungar Publishing Company . Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 356 . $7.50 . Copyright 1967 by Duke...

...Eliana Rivero Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution . By Menton Seymour . Austin , 1975 . University of Texas Press . Chronology. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 344 . Cloth. $12.50 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Professor Menton is concerned...

...Alfonso González Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Narrativa y crítica de nuestra América is a compilation of eleven critical essays about eleven outstanding Spanish-American prose fiction writers: Asturias, Borges, Carpentier, Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez, Onetti, Sábato...

... a decade ago. Parts 1 and 2 of the Guide (volumes 12 and 13 of the Handbook) treat the Spanish sources for the writing of Middle American ethnohistory, while the volumes under review here are devoted exclusively to pictorial and historical prose manuscripts in the native tradition. The Guide makes...

... of Modernism, and especially refutes the date of 1888 as the initiation of the movement with the publication in that year of Darío’s poem “Azul.” The authors insist that Modernism began some years earlier in prose efforts, and that Darío is not the father of the movement. That honor belongs to Martí, who...

... past as not even passed, these writers claimed the past portrayed in their revisionist prose is “omnipresent” (p. 119). In part 3, Nunn moves from the interviews and expository prose of the Boom novelists to the investigations of Latin American social scientists. In this genre, history becomes...

... elegantly translated here by Paulo Henriques Britto. Süssekind writes a prose of many commas and few periods, and Britto successfully retains the density of her style while avoiding impenetrability. The author notes that most of the novels she considers are “now largely forgotten” (p. 1), but she...

... (1935) was Jorge Luis Borges’s first adventure in the realm of narrative prose. He started as a poet ( Fervor de Buenos Aires , 1923) and essayist ( Inquisiciones , 1925). In the prologue to the 1954 edition he declared that the stories were “the irresponsible game of a shy young man who dared not write...

... by the editor, letters from Gregorio, letters from María, and a sort of appendix consisting of two rough drafts of Juan Ramón to Gregorio, prose and verse by Gregorio dedicated to J. R. J., and prose and verse by Juan Ramón dedicated to Gregorio. In the preliminary study or introduction Professor Gullón...

... for post-Modernism.” Equally deserving of a chapter apart are the four women (Agustini, Mistral, Ibarbourou, and Storni) who kept poetry on a high and even keel during the ultraísta outburst. The only voices to speak for the newer esthetics in poetry and prose are those of Neruda, Vallejo, and Asturias...

...). Volume I covers prose and poetry that begin with Columbus’ first letter through chapters from Jorge Amado’s Sea of the Dead and poems by Gabriela Mistral. Selections include excerpts from the chronicles of discovery and exploration that form part of the best literary prose of the colonial period...

... treatment lays bare the known and probable motives and relationships. The prose of this book is notable in that Halperín-Donghi’s normally sesquipedalian sentences, with clause balancing clause in eighteenth-century style, have been brought to relatively short crisp statements. The subtlety remains...

..., the writing will be very difficult to follow for all but those already familiar with the approach. Furthermore, the prose is generally stilted and too literally rendered from the Portuguese. This is an awkward read even for the theoretically minded. Especially frustrating for those who do manage to wade...

... involved in or intrigued by polemics about the custodianship of human remains will bene t from reading Empires ofthe Dead. Heaney s impeccable research and vivid prose, known to many through his journalistic work in magazines such as the New Yorker and the Atlantic, stand out in the crucial initial...

... best planning, technology, and good sense available to man. In no sense is this a balanced or scholarly appraisal of the first four years of agrarian reform under Castro. Written in breezy and often disconnected prose, laced with anecdotes of the “Fidel and I” variety, inaccurate and extremely mean...

... was coming clearly into view. The decision to extend coverage into the late nineteenth century was a sound one, since it allows for greater continuity in the two accounts of modernismo included in the Cambridge History . Both of these, “Modernist Poetry” by Cathy L. Jrade and “Modernist Prose” by Aníbal...

... of the Amazon book in easy prose with a scholarly and quite informative twist. The information is not historical but rather geographical. The lack of any historical data is a valid criticism. Smith, a native of New Orleans, is a “free lance writer and photographer.” He has worked for Life, Look, Holiday...

..., the explosion of population and industry in the postwar era. Sheridan is in love with his subject, but the lyrical prose is grounded in a wealth of scholarship and organized around concepts that make sense. He divides Arizona’s past into three phases: incorporation, the gradual inclusion of Arizona...

... sensual religious art and architecture. The deft blend of intellectual, social, and cultural history makes this an exemplary work on Mexico’s understudied baroque era; ebullient prose makes it a joy to read. The author points to mental prayer and mystical visions as the foundation of the era’s popular...

... in the prose of life between celebration and condemnation. Memoirs . By Neruda Pablo . Translated by St. Martin Hardie . New York , 1978 . Penguin Books . Chronology. Index . Pp. 370 . Paper. $2.95 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Memoirs is a more suitable...