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| | Juan Carlos Onetti Manuel Puig etc, 1855661195, £50.00/$85.00, 190p 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Onetti, Puig and Valenzuela have not had the same level of international acclaim as Borges, García Márquez or Vargas Llosa, but they are equally intellectually challenging, and their work adds much to the breadth and depth of twentieth-century Latin American literature. |
 | | This book starts with Onetti's first novella, the intricate, fragmented El pozo, and finishes with Valenzuela's Cola de lagartija, a strange, quasi-baroque work of dark humour and powerful political overtones. |
 | | Onetti, Puig and Valenzuela are seldom viewed together, but Craig argues that their common geography and history are crucial, and that these particular writers share and explore in their work a post-colonial emptiness, a constant questioning of realism and a love of tango. |
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