Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Magic Realism and the Fantastic: Contemporary Latin American Fiction

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Offers in-depth study of outstanding modern authors (Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, García Márquez), whose works have defined the world of 20th-century Latin American fiction. A world of the fantastic and magic realism, of philosophical inquiry and existential quest, of labyrinths where at the end there is but one absolute, solitude. Other Argentine, Mexican, Cuban, or Peruvian authors are added in rotation. All works read in translation. No Spanish required.

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Offers in-depth study of outstanding modern authors (Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, García Márquez), whose works have defined the world of 20th-century Latin American fiction. A world of the fantastic and magic realism, of philosophical inquiry and existential quest, of labyrinths where at the end there is but one absolute, solitude. Other Argentine, Mexican, Cuban, or Peruvian authors are added in rotation. All works read in translation. No Spanish required.

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