by José Miguel Oviedo · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420672779
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«Antología crítica del cuento hispanoamericano del siglo XX: 1. Fundadores e innovadores» is the short story anthology by José Miguel Oviedo (paperback).
This first volume, 'Fundadores e innovadores', collects Spanish American short stories from the period 1920-1980 and shows the diversity of the genre through representative tales, not only by the most celebrated authors. The introduction orders the trends and each story includes a presentation of the author and updated bibliography.
Volume 1 of a two-volume anthology, published in the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Literatura hispanoamericana. Paperback edition of 368 pages (2008).
For those who want a broad view of 20th-century Spanish American short fiction, with critical and bibliographic context.
José Miguel Oviedo was a Peruvian writer and literary critic, born in Lima. He received his doctorate from the Pontificia Universidad Católica in 1961, afterwards teaching at the same institution. Coming to the US in 1975, he taught at State University of New York, Indiana University, and UCLA. In 1988 he was appointed Trustee Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and remained there until his retirement and move to Emeritus Professor in 2000. He was the recipient of important scholarships such as the Rockefeller grant and the Guggenheim fellowship(1972).
