Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal

Following an introduction to the theory of autobiographical rhetoric, this study centers on the process of fictionalizing the self in Cabrera Infante's La Habana para un infante difunto and Vargas Llosa's La tia Julia y el escribidor. Rosemary Feal examines narrative devices that the self-conscious protagonists employ to translate life into text, and further demonstrates how they create mock autobiographies. The analysis of the autobiographical mode reaches beyond the texts in question, to encompass related forms of storytelling including the picaresque, cinema, soap operas, and erotica, and other works by the authors that are the book's focus.

The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa

Novel Lives

Carlos Feal

This book examines psychoanalysis, feminism, philosophy, and semiotics to examine late 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Spanish-American literature in relation to painting, and to larger questions of art theory and literary history.

Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts

Painting on the Page

Carlos Feal Deibe

Yvette E. Miller

Dedicated to the influential modern author Isabel Allende, this collection of essays comprises scholarly writing about Allende published during the 1990s. Providing critical insights into some of Allende's lesser-known writing and inviting considerations on unexplored aspects of the popular writer, this volume is an essential edition to studies on her and all Latin American women writers.

Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal

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