Logbooks for a New Latin American Nonfiction

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Notes

1 The original Movimiento perpetuo (1972) was his third book, published in English together with his first collection, Obras completas (y otros cuentos) (1959), as Complete Works and Other Stories (1995). My introduction to the latter lists the authors for whom Monterroso was an initial influencer (xvii). All translations are mine.

2 See, respectively, Claire de Obaldia, The Essayistic Spirit: Literature, Modern Criticism, and the Essay (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), Irène Langlet, L’Abeille et la Balance. Penser l’essai (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015), Brian Dillon, Essayism (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017), and The Cambridge Companion to the Essay, eds. Kara Wittman and Evan Kindley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), particularly Emre’s “The Personal Essay” (32-48) and Jason Childs’s “The Essay and the Novel” (199-214).

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Will H. Corral

Will H. Corral (Ecuador; Ph.D. Columbia) has taught at UMass-Amherst, Stanford, and other universities. In 2014, he held the Cátedra Abierta Roberto Bolaño in Chile. He is the author or co-author of sixteen books, including Theory’s Empire (2005) with Daphne Patai and Peajes de la crítica latinoamericana (2023; Tolls of Latin American Criticism).