by José Miguel Oviedo · Fisical_Book · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518373101
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«Lateinamerika. Gedichte und Erzählungen» is the anthology of Latin American poems and stories edited by José Miguel Oviedo (Suhrkamp, paperback, 429 pp.).
It brings together poems and stories by key authors of 20th-century Latin American literature, such as Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Octavio Paz. Edited by José Miguel Oviedo with an introduction and notes on the authors, the work covers the period 1930-1980 and shows the continent's diversity of styles.
It corresponds to number 810 of the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch series, with 429 pages and text in German.
For German-speaking readers interested in an overview of 20th-century Latin American literature and its most representative authors.
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).
