Writing the Apocalypse

Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction

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Paperback | 4 October 1993

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This is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel. Zamora explores the history of the myth of apocalypse, from the Bible to medieval and later interpretations, and relates this to the development of American apocalyptic attitudes. She demonstrates that the symbolic tensions inherent in the apocalytic myth have special meaning for postmodern writers. Zamora focuses her examination on the relationship between the temporal ends and the narrative endings in the works of six major novelists: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortazar, John Barth, Walker Percy, and Carlos Fuentes. Distinguished by its unique, cross-cultural perspective, this book addresses the question of the apocalypse as a matter of intellectual and literary history. Zamora's analysis will enlighten both scholars of North and Latin American literature and readers of contemporary fiction.

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'... rarely do we find a work of this calibre with such depth of scholarly grounding and breadth of critical approach ... Writing the Apocalypse both informs convincingly and suggests the possibility of further studies in a similar vein ... Every Hispanist who is concerned with the dynamics of contemporary literature in Latin America - not to mention the US - should read this excellent work.' Hispanic Review

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: the apocolyptic vision and fictions of historic desire
Apocalypse and human time in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Apocolypse and entropy: physics and the fiction of Thomas Pynchon
Art and revolution in the fiction of Julio Cortazar
The Apocalypse of Style: John Barth's Self-Consuming Fiction
Apocolypse and renewal: Walker Percy and the US South
Beyond apocalypse: Carlos Fuente's Terra Nostra
Individual and communal conclusions
Notes
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