HISP 407 - Grandes Novelas Grandes: Cortázar, García Márquez, Roa Bastos, Bolaño

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD
A close reading of four “great big” Latin American novels: Rayuela (Cortázar, 1963), Tres tristes tigeres (Cabrera Infante, 1965), Cien años de soledad (García Márquez, 1967), and, Thirty years after the “Boom” caused by these great writers, Los detectives salvajes (1998) by Roberto Bolaño. Myth, metafiction, magical realism, tyranny, and the loss of all these things. Taught in Spanish.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. O’Connor
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Two Spanish-Taught 300-level courses.