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Littoral of the Letter
Gabriel Riera
其他書名
Saer's Art of Narration
出版Bucknell University Press, 2006
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN08387566549780838756652
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IaH42Ez9C1kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Littoral of the Letter is the first full-fledged study in English of the work of the late Argentine author Juan Jose Saer (1937-2005), who was highly regarded as Argentina's best living novelist, a continuator of Burgess' literary legacy. Characterized by an uncommon coherence and rigor, Juan Jose Saer's writing defies simple categories. In both his fictional and essayistic writing, Saer defamiliarizes the reader by questioning some of his most cherished certainties, especially those having to do with the role ascribed to Latin American literature, the uses of prose and poetry in the present, and the relation between language and the mass media. By questioning the assimilation of prose theory and the novel theory dictated by pragmatic needs of the state and the market, Saer produces a change in the function of narrative language that allows him to start where more traditional forms of realism end: the unsayable. The purpose of the book is to make explicit Saer's procedures, the main coordinates of his poetics and to reflect on the situation of literature in an age dominated by images and the total cultural phenomenon. University.