Patricia E. Reagan Boeken

Exploring the works of prominent Latin American authors, this book examines how their fiction subverts Christian symbols to provide critical social, political, and cultural commentary. By rejecting traditional Christian narratives, these texts reveal a quest for meaning that reflects broader themes in twentieth-century Latin American literature. The analysis of these diverse voices highlights a collective pattern, enriching the understanding of the region's literary landscape.

The Postmodern Storyteller engages in close textual analysis of three key texts by José Donoso, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, each of which has a first-person non-protagonist observer narrator. This study adds an innovative perspective to ongoing dialogues by contributing to the existing body of criticism of each text and to other topics in studies of narrative, such as the roles of narrator, author, and reader, narcissism, voyeurism, gender, exile, parody, rhetoric, and postmodern and cultural studies.