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A dazzling sampler, Water Lilies brings to light a rich and until now largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish and English and located within a critical, biographical, and historical overview.

This is the first collection of criticism on Mario Benedetti's work published in Spanish covering his literary works, the major themes of his writing, cinematic interpretations of his works, and his political commitments.

"This new English translation of Canaima should be welcomed by all readers of Gallegos. In addition to Kirkland's translation (based on Charles Minguet's 1991 critique of the novel in Spanish), work contains his engaging and provocative translator's essay

Para la crítica argentina, el tópico de las historias de la literatura no es solamente un objeto de investigación como cualquier otro: aparece siempre como su centro manifiesto u oculto, como el impulsor que le permite pensar sus propias condiciones de posibilidad y sus relaciones problemáticas con la literatura y con el devenir histórico. Guadalupe Maradei examina con elegante minuciosidad un momento turbador de la historia nacional, heredero de una violencia y de un trauma: la posdictadura. Concibe al canon no como sucesión pacífica de altas y bajas, sino como un necesario conflicto, ...