Writing the Apocalypse : Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the apocolyptic vision and fictions of historic desire; 2. Apocalypse and human time in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez; 3. Apocolypse and entropy: physics and the fiction of Thomas Pynchon; 4. Art and revolution in the fiction of Julio Cortazar; 5. The apocalypse of style: John Barth's self-consuming fiction; 6. Apocolypse and renewal: Walker Percy and the US South; 7. Beyond apocalypse: Carlos Fuente's Terra Nostra; 8. Individual and communal conclusions; Notes; Index.