Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar

In the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Columbian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. Their fictional mergers of past and present insinuate the reversibility/ambiguity of dreams/repres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lois Marie Jaeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico 1999-01-01
Series:Ciencia Ergo Sum
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10401613