Jack Scmitt is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese at California State University, Long Beach. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures at Yale University and a member of the American Academy of Arts of Sciences.

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