Daniel Balderston Libros

The enormous body of short story anthologies from the nineteen countries of Spanish America and Brazil testifies to their importance for writers, editors, readers, and, especially, for schools and universities, teachers and students. The study of anthologies and their contents can be particularly revealing for many of the questions looming large in critical discourse, particularly

In Jorge Luis Borgess finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history–in short, to reality.Out of Contextcorrects this shortsighted view and reveals the very real basis of the Argentine masters purported irreality. By providing the historical context for some of the