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Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook

This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide. Each volume offers:

A comprehensive overview of the artists short fiction-including detailed analyses of every significant story Interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished A representative selection of critical responses Acomprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artists life and works and an index

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In keeping with a recent trend in Cortazar criticism, Stavans (Amherst College), like Terry Peavler (Julio Cortazar, CH, Oct'90), concentrates on the short fiction of the Argentine master, at the expense of his much-vaunted novels, especially Hopscotch (CH, Jul'67). Stavan's study, following the Twayne format for this series, is made up of three sections. Part 1 ("The Short Fiction"), divided into ten subparts, analyzes about 100 short stories more or less chronologically and in the context of Cortazar's life--from his early years in Argentina through his voluntary exile in France and his ideological commitment to the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions. Part 2 ("The Writer") comprises three pieces: an examination of the short-story genre, a treatise on fantastic literature in the River Plate countries, and a letter to the Cuban critic Roberto Fernandez Retamar (on the sociopolitical role of the writer). Part 3 ("The Critics") contains two articles: one on the early fiction (1945-66), especially End of the Game, and one on the later fiction (1967-83), especially Octaedra. All titles in English and Spanish. Stavans includes a five-page chronology, an eight-page bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and seven pages of notes. Upper-division undergraduates and above. J. Walker Queen's University at Kingston

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Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961, in Mexico City) is a Mexican-American, essayist. He is the author of "The Hispanic Condition", "The Riddle of Cantinflas", and "The One-Handed Pianist & Other Stories" as well as the editor of "The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories" and a dictionary of Spanglish, among other volumes. He has been a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Latino Literature Prize, among other honors. He teaches at Amherst College.

(Bowker Author Biography)