A Common Place

The Representation of Paris in Spanish American Fiction

• Author(s): Julie Jones,
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Pages: 136
• ISBN_10: 0838753787
  ISBN_13: 9780838753781
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / Hispanic & Latino , Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General ,

Description:... Paris, which has been called the literary capital of Spanish America, has had as great an impact on Hispanic literati as on their North American counterparts. A number of recent studies examine the role it has played in their lives and works. This book is the first full-length study to take up the relation between Spanish American literature and Paris. It focuses on the representation of the city in six novels published between 1963 and 1982, a period that corresponds with the coming of age of Spanish American fiction. It is also a point at which writers began to confront the problems that accompany the desire to represent a place that has become a commonplace in literature and art.