Writing the Apocalypse : historical vision in contemporary U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora.
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Cambridge [England] ; New York. NY, USA :
Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge,
1989.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The apocalyptic vision and fictions of historical desire
- Apocalypse and human time in the fiction of Gabriel García Márquez
- Apocalypse and entropy: physics and the fiction of Thomas Pynchon
- Art and revolution in the fiction of Julio Cortázar
- The apocalypse of style: John Barth's self-consuming fiction
- Apocalypse and renewal: Walker Percy and the U.S. South
- Beyond apocalypse: Carlos Fuentes's Terra nostra
- Individual and communal conclusions.