Articles by Efrain Kristal

• Screening Peru
  • Efrain Kristal

  in NLR 42, November-December 2006, pp. 99-114
  Subjects: Cinema , Peru
  

  Contradictions of his country’s breakneck urbanization in the cinema of Francisco Lombardi. Film’s rival media—tele-reportage, newspapers, radio, videotaped corruption—brought into play to create new cinematic forms.

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• The Lovelorn Librarian
  • Efrain Kristal

  in NLR 31, January-February 2005, pp. 153-160
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Literature
  

  Efraín Kristal on Edwin Williamson, Borges. A Life. The personal chagrins and political conversions of Argentina’s greatest writer, from youthful lyrics on the Red Guard to elderly pleasantries with Pinochet, and final recusances.

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• Lessons from the Golden Age
  • Efrain Kristal

  in NLR 24, November-December 2003, pp. 145-153
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Literature
  

  Efraín Kristal on Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale. Crossing the arts of autobiography, politics and fiction in the Caribbean littoral.

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• 'Considering Coldly ...'
  • Efrain Kristal

  in NLR 15, May-June 2002, pp. 61-74
  Subjects: Latin America and the Caribbean , Literature
  

  Does Spanish American literature illustrate or overturn the idea that in the ‘world republic of letters’ economic and cultural relations between centre and periphery run parallel? A Peruvian assesses Franco Moretti’s conjectures (NLR 1), and springs some surprises about Beckett.

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