Venega (Romance languages, Wake Forest U.) elaborates the influence of Irish novelist and poet Joyce (1882-1941) that others have also noticed on the advent of modernism in Spanish American
literature, primarily between Jorge Borge's Ficciones in 1944 to Fernando del Paso's Palinuro de M矇xico in 1977. He discusses cultural decolonization and Joyce's reception in Spanish America,
allusion and cosmopolitanism in Borges, double consciousness and counter-myth in Julio Cort獺zar's Rayuela, and the aesthetics of the Joycean novel in Spanish America. Quotations are in Spanish
followed by English translation. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
