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9780739169957

The Postmodern Storyteller Donoso, García Márquez, and Vargas Llosa

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739169957

  • ISBN10:

    0739169955

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-06-21
  • Publisher: Lexington Books

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Summary

The Postmodern Storyteller examines three key novels of the 1980s, by Jose Donoso, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Each text has an observer narrator who is not die protagonist of the story he narrates; rather, he tells the story of another individual. These storytellers are postmodern hot only in their rejection of the notion of communicating truth by parodying the realist, chronicle, and ethnography genres, but also in the need for an active reader-accomplice who will formulate an individualized message to assuage the fragmentation of the individual in a postmodern society. As Patricia E. Reagan's analysis shows, the act of reading can have a psychotherapeutic appeal for the active reader when coupled with a postmodern storyteller. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Patricia E. Reagan is assistant professor of Spanish at Randolph-Macon College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introduction: The Problem with the Traditional First-Person Narratorp. 1
Self-Exile as a Means of Self-Affirmation in José Donoso'sp. 11
The Anti-Rhetoric of the Non-Chronicle in Gabriel Garcia Márquez'sp. 43
Stories of the Other/Reflections of the Self in Mario Vargas Llosa'sp. 85
Conclusion: Postmodern Problems with Postmodern Solutionsp. 129
Works Citedp. 135
Indexp. 143
About the Authorp. 153
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