Latin American Short Story

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In this course, we will read and analyze short stories by different Latin American authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. The course covers, among others, the philosophical fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, the double stories of Julio Cortazar, the linguistic and narrative innovation of Carlos Fuentes, the geography of sensations of Clarice Lispector, the magical realism of Gabriel García Marquez, the realism of Roberto Bolaño, the memory of the dictatorship of Felix Bruzzone, and the self-fiction of Eduardo Halfon. Taught in Spanish.