The Spanish American Novel: A Twentieth-Century Survey

John S. Brushwood

Published by University of Texas Press 1975

The Spanish American Novel

A Twentieth-Century Survey

John S. Brushwood

In the series Texas Pan American Series

https://doi.org/10.7560/775152

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In The Spanish American Novel, John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality. In relating the generic history of the novel to extraliterary events in Spanish America, he shows how twentieth-century fiction sets forth the essence of such phenomena as the first Perón regime, the Mexican Revolution, the Che Guevara legend, indigenismo, and the strongman political type. In essence, he views the novel as art rather than as document, but not as art alienated from society.

The discussion is organized chronologically, opening with the turn of the century and focusing on novels from 1900 to 1915 that exemplify various aspects of the nineteenth-century literary inheritance. Brushwood then highlights the avant-garde fiction (influenced by Proust and Joyce) of the 1920s as a precursory movement to the “new” Latin American novel, a phenomenon that came into its own during the 1940s. He then examines the “boom” in Spanish American fiction, the period of extensive international recognition of certain works, which he dates from 1962 or 1963.

In each era considered, the development of the novel is placed in dual perspective. One view—that of particularly significant novels in light of others published during the same year—is a cross section of the genre at one particular moment. The second view—that of a panorama of novels published in intervals between significant moments in the history of the novel—is more general and selective in the number of books discussed. Combining the historical with the analytical approach, the author proposes that the experience of a novel in which reality has been transformed into art is essential to our understanding of that reality.

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John S. Brushwood (1920–2007) was the Roy A. Roberts Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Kansas.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. The Heritage (1900-1915) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Year of Los de abajo (1916) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. From Los de abajo to Don Segundo Sombra (1917-1925) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. The Year of Don Segundo Sombra (1926) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
5. From Don Segundo Sombra to Doña Bárbara (1927-1928) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
6. The Year of Doña Bárbara (1929) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
7. From Doña Bárbara to Don Goyo (1930-1932) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
8. The Year of Don Goyo (1933) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
9. From Don Goyo to Todo verdor perecerá (1934-1940) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
10. The Year of Todo verdor perecerá (1941) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
11. From Todo verdor perecerá to El Señor Presidente (1942-1945) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
12. The Years of the Reaffirmation of Fiction: El Señor Presidente (1946), Al filo del agua (1947), Adán Buenosayres (1948), El reino de este mundo (1949) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
13. From El reino de este mundo to Pedro Páramo (1950-1954) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
14. The Year of Pedro Páramo (1955) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
15. From Pedro Páramo to Rayuela (1956-1962 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
16. The Year of Rayuela (1963) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
17. From Rayuela to Cien años de soledad (1964-1966) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
18. The Year of Cien años de soledad (1967) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
19. After Cien años de soledad (1968-1970) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
20. Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
A List of Novels by Year and Country Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
A Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Copyright year: 1975
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 404

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Published: July 29, 2014
ISBN: 9780292771437