Idle Fictions

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Gustavo Pérez Firmat

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"Perez Firmat provides rich insight into the esthetic values and the artistic tensions that prevailed in the '20s and '30s (not only in the Hispanic world). His is a book of consummate originality that bears the imprint of a critic as strong-minded as he is perceptive. It is certainly a work of enviable maturity."--John W. Kronik, Cornell University

Inhalt

Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
Introduction xi
Part 1: Criticism

1. The Vanguard Novel as a Discursive Category 3
2. A Pneumatic Aesthetics 40
   Part 2: Novels
3. Closed World 67
4. Decharacterization 81
5. From Palimpsest to Pastiche 100
6. The Novel as Matrass 121
   Conclusion: Hermes in and out of the Subway 139
   Notes 143
   Bibliography 154
   Appendix: Vanguard Saints 169
   Index 179