Myth and Archive - Roberto Gonzalez (Yale University Echevarria - Bog

This book offers a theory about the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern novel. The book contains readings of major works in the tradition such as Garcilaso el Inca's Comentarios reales, Sarmiento's Facundo, Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos and Garcia Marquez's Cien anos de Soledad.