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Writing for Fewer and Fewer: Peruvian Fiction 1979–1980
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MIRAFLORES' MELODY. By AMPUEROFERNANDO. (Lima: Serconsa Editores, 1979. Pp. 165.)
CUSCO, CRÓNICA DE UNA PASIÓN. By AVENDAÑOANGEL. (Lima: Antarki Editores, 1980. Pp. 165.)
ALFORJA DE CIEGO. By HERRERAJORGE DÍAZ. (Lima: Ediciones Arte/Reda, 1979. Pp. 201.)
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1. José Donoso, The Boom in Spanish American Literature: A Personal History, trans Gregory Kolovakos (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), p. 25.
2. Danilo Sánchez Lihón, El libro y la lectura en el Perú (Lima: Editorial Mantaro/Grafital Editores, 1978), p. 77. Many of this essay's remarks on the present-day Peruvian publishing industry are based on data provided by Sánchez Lihón's study.
3. Sánchez Lihón, El libro, p. 73.
4. Janina Montero, “Observations on the Hispanic American Novel and Its Public,” Latin American Literary Review 6, no. 11 (Fall-Winter 1977): 9.
5. For additional comments on very recent Peruvian literature, see Dick Gerdes, “Novedades del Perú,” Hispania 63, no. 3 (Sept. 1980): 586–87. A valuable theoretical article on the topic is provided by Antonio Cornejo Polar, “Hipótesis sobre la narrativa peruana última,” Hueso Húmero (Lima), No. 3 (oct.–dic. 1979): 45–64.
6. See, for example, “Seymour” (Alfonso La Torre), “Se cierra ‘la Balada’ de Scorza,” El Comercio (Lima) 17 junio 1979, p. 19; and Fabienne Bradu, “Scorza: entre la desilusión y la polémica,” Revista de la Universidad de México 33, no. 8 (abril 1979): 49–51.
7. Tomás Escajadillo, “Scorza antes de la última batalla,” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (Lima), Nos. 7–8 (1978), p. 189.
8. Gerdes (p. 586) reports that Scorza intends to publish, as a supplement to his novelistic cycle, a collection of photos and documents substantiating the numerous claims and accusations made in the five volumes.
9. Manuel González Prada, “Propaganda y ataque,” Páginas libres, ed. Rufino Blanco-Fombona (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Librería, 1915), p. 174.
10. Jorge Díaz Herrera, Alforja de ciego (Lima: Ediciones Arte/Reda, 1979), p. 43.
11. Washington Delgado, “Prólogo,” in Díaz Herrera, p. 11.
12. Cited by Sánchez Lihón, El libro, p. 79.
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