El Cuento Hispanoamericano: Antologia Critico-Historica | Seymour Menton
This is the most popular reader on Latin American short story. It is presently in its 7th edition and has been reprinted more than 30 times. Professor Menton keeps track of the genre from its beginning after the Independence wars at the outset of the nineteenth-century to the present day. Writers from all Latin American countries and epochs are represented, some as well known as Borges, Garcia Marquez or Rulfo others less so but which are no less important in the evolution of the genre. 50 stories in all, each with an afterword where the keys to a better reading are given.
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