Houses of horror or magical kingdoms? past times revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar

• Autores: Lois Marie Jaeck
• Localización: CIENCIA ergo-sum, ISSN 1405-0269, Vol. 6, Nº. 3, 1999, págs. 312-318
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Colombian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. Their fictiona mergers of “past" and "present" insinuate the reversibility/ambiguity of dreams/representation with physical reality. They thus recognize the authentic presence of Pre-Columbian cultura in contemporary Latin American societies and put into question the validity of European North American materialism.