The Labyrinth of Love

A Tale of Latin American Romance
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-83093-3
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 196 g

This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allende, Roberto Arlt, García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The author provides a close textual reading of each novel and discusses how humans make sense of their lives through love. He shifts the focus of these writings from political violence and historical disillusionment to the illusion of love.

An important contribution to Latin American literary criticism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, history, Latin American literature, philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, comparative literature, and sociology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castelli, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: A Violent Romance 2: The Body in Pain Isabel Allende’s Tale of Love 3: Shades of Love in El Amor en los Tiempos del Cholera 4: The Underground Man in El Amor Brujo 5: Travesuras de una niña mala: The Temptation of the Impossible

Über Autor(innen)

Alberto Castelli is a writer and a humanities professor at Hainan University, China. Chiefly, he is engaged with Modernism, Postmodern dynamics, and Cross-Cultural Studies. He is the author of “Perspectives on Asia: is China kitsch?” (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and “Bipolarism in the Nineteenth Century Novel” (University of Toronto Quarterly, 2023). Most recently Castelli’s publications include Eros and Thanatos. Love Across Civilizations (Vernon Press, 2023) and Love, Beauty or Morality (Springer, 2024).