Argentinian scholar and writer Enrique Anderson-Imbert is familiar
to many North American students for his La Literatura de America
Latina I and II, which are widely used in college Spanish courses.
But Anderson-Imbert is also a noted creative writer, whose use of
"magical realism" helped pave the way for such writers as Borges,
Cortazar, Sabato, and Ocampo. In this anthology, Carleton Vail and
Pamela Edwards-Mondragon have chosen stories from the period 1965
to 1985 to introduce English-speaking readers to the creative work
of Enrique Anderson-Imbert. Representative stories from the
collections The Cheshire Cat, The Swindler Retires, Madness Plays
at Chess, Klein's Bottle, Two Women and One Julian, and The Size of
the Witches illustrate Anderson-Imbert's unique style and world
view. Many are "short short" stories, which Anderson-Imbert calls
casos (instances). The range of subjects and points of view varies
widely, challenging such "realities" as time and space, right and
wrong, science and religion. In a prologue, Anderson-Imbert tells
an imaginary reader, "Each one of my stories is a closed entity,
brief because it has caught a single spasm of life in a single leap
of fantasy. Only a reading of all my stories will reveal my
world-view." The reader asks, "And are you sure that it is worth
the trouble?" Anderson-Imbert replies, "No." The unexpected, ironic
ending is one of the great pleasures of reading Enrique
Anderson-Imbert.
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