Writing Paris

Marcy E. Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.

"As an illusory, novelistic city, Paris occupies an unrivaled position in Latin American thought and writing. Schwartz is concerned not with the Paris of geography, history, or demography, but with a Paris of the mind, inscribed in narrative and recreated in the imagination of readers. Her study draws on the work of cultural historians and critics to analyze this imaginary Paris, and her perspective offers a fascinating literary tour. Schwartz pays close attention to questions of language, the role of gender, the impact of exile, and the overall structure of 'desire' within the literary production of Latin American writers who construct Paris." — Rosemary G. Feal, University of Rochester"A solid, thought-provoking contribution to the study of contemporary Latin American fiction, cultural studies, and the on-going debate on postcolonial critical theory." — César Ferreira, University of Oklahoma

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction:The City As Text and Paris As Fiction Chapter OneDesiring ParisThe Latin American Conception of the Lettered City, 1840 to 1960 Chapter TwoThe Interstices of Desire ParisAs Passageway in Julio Cortázar's Short Fiction Chapter ThreeThe Immovable FeastParis and Politics in Manuel Scorza's La danza inmóvil Chapter FourOn The BorderCultural and Linguistic Trespassing in Alfredo Bryce Echenique's La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña and El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de Cádiz Chapter FiveParis Under Her SkinLuisa Futoransky's Urban Inscriptions of Exile Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index