NoÉ Jitrik was born in 1928 in Rivera, Argentina. He is the Director of the Instituto de Literatura Latinoamericana at the University of Buenos Aires. He has taught at universities in Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico, France, and Venezuela. Jitrik is the author of many works of literary criticism and more than a dozen books of fiction and poetry. He is currently editing a twelve-volume history of Argentine literature.Daniel Balderston is Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa. He is the author of books including El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas; Borges, realidades y simulacros; and Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (also published by Duke University Press).Susan Benner is a lecturer in the Department of English at Iowa State University.

• Editor’s Preface: Suspending Belief viiComplex Feelings about Borges 1Between Being and Becoming: Identity, Latinity, Discourse 27Form and Signification in Esteban Echeverria’s “The Slaughter House” 35Canon and Margin in Latin American Literature 64From History to Writing: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Tendencies in the Latin American Historical Novel 79Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde: Working Papers 96Beneath the Sign of the Baroque 114The Rise and Fall of Argentine Nationalism 122Autobiography, Biography, Narrative: Sarmiento and the Origins of Argentine Literature 154Autobiography, Memoir, Diary 169Marti in the Latin American Library 180Lack and Excess in Jose Bianco’s Shadow Play 193The Suffering Narrator 208Arguedas: Reflections and Approaches 216Notes on the “Holy Place” and “Otherness” in Cortazar’s Bestiary 232I, the Supreme as Historical Novel 247Thirty Years Later 263Notes 271Works Cited 291Index 305

“Reading these essays, I was struck by how much all of us owe to NoÉ Jitrik and by his role in the formation of a Latin American intelligentsia. Jitrik’s is a voice of wisdom and passion, and this volume reveals the extraordinary scope and weight of his intellectual presence.”-Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University

NoÉ Jitrik was born in 1928 in Rivera, Argentina. He is the Director of the Instituto de Literatura Latinoamericana at the University of Buenos Aires. He has taught at universities in Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico, France, and Venezuela. Jitrik is the author of many works of literary criticism and more than a dozen books of fiction and poetry. He is currently editing a twelve-volume history of Argentine literature.Daniel Balderston is Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa. He is the author of books including El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas; Borges, realidades y simulacros; and Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (also published by Duke University Press).Susan Benner is a lecturer in the Department of English at Iowa State University.

• Editor’s Preface: Suspending Belief viiComplex Feelings about Borges 1Between Being and Becoming: Identity, Latinity, Discourse 27Form and Signification in Esteban Echeverria’s “The Slaughter House” 35Canon and Margin in Latin American Literature 64From History to Writing: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Tendencies in the Latin American Historical Novel 79Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde: Working Papers 96Beneath the Sign of the Baroque 114The Rise and Fall of Argentine Nationalism 122Autobiography, Biography, Narrative: Sarmiento and the Origins of Argentine Literature 154Autobiography, Memoir, Diary 169Marti in the Latin American Library 180Lack and Excess in Jose Bianco’s Shadow Play 193The Suffering Narrator 208Arguedas: Reflections and Approaches 216Notes on the “Holy Place” and “Otherness” in Cortazar’s Bestiary 232I, the Supreme as Historical Novel 247Thirty Years Later 263Notes 271Works Cited 291Index 305

“Reading these essays, I was struck by how much all of us owe to NoÉ Jitrik and by his role in the formation of a Latin American intelligentsia. Jitrik’s is a voice of wisdom and passion, and this volume reveals the extraordinary scope and weight of his intellectual presence.”-Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University

NoÉ Jitrik was born in 1928 in Rivera, Argentina. He is the Director of the Instituto de Literatura Latinoamericana at the University of Buenos Aires. He has taught at universities in Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico, France, and Venezuela. Jitrik is the author of many works of literary criticism and more than a dozen books of fiction and poetry. He is currently editing a twelve-volume history of Argentine literature.Daniel Balderston is Professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa. He is the author of books including El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas; Borges, realidades y simulacros; and Out of Context: Historical Reference and the Representation of Reality in Borges (also published by Duke University Press).Susan Benner is a lecturer in the Department of English at Iowa State University.

• Editor’s Preface: Suspending Belief viiComplex Feelings about Borges 1Between Being and Becoming: Identity, Latinity, Discourse 27Form and Signification in Esteban Echeverria’s “The Slaughter House” 35Canon and Margin in Latin American Literature 64From History to Writing: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Tendencies in the Latin American Historical Novel 79Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde: Working Papers 96Beneath the Sign of the Baroque 114The Rise and Fall of Argentine Nationalism 122Autobiography, Biography, Narrative: Sarmiento and the Origins of Argentine Literature 154Autobiography, Memoir, Diary 169Marti in the Latin American Library 180Lack and Excess in Jose Bianco’s Shadow Play 193The Suffering Narrator 208Arguedas: Reflections and Approaches 216Notes on the “Holy Place” and “Otherness” in Cortazar’s Bestiary 232I, the Supreme as Historical Novel 247Thirty Years Later 263Notes 271Works Cited 291Index 305

“Reading these essays, I was struck by how much all of us owe to NoÉ Jitrik and by his role in the formation of a Latin American intelligentsia. Jitrik’s is a voice of wisdom and passion, and this volume reveals the extraordinary scope and weight of his intellectual presence.”-Gwen Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University