Luisa Valenzuela is one of the first outstanding Latin-American female authors to enjoy increasing readership and interest in the 1980s. Time and Newsweek have featured articles in which Valenzuela's name appeared next to the likes of Jorge Luis...

Luisa Valenzuela (born 1938) is an Argentine writer of both fiction and journalistic works. She is among her nation's most significant writers, best known for the style of writing that blends magical and fantastic elements into prose known as magical...

Buenos Aires. Norma. 2001 399 pages. ISBN 987-545-026-X BORN IN ARGENTINA, residing largely in New York since 1979, the short-story writer and novelist Luisa Valenzuela is associated with the themes of women, exile, and coercion by linguistic means. Her writing often evokes...

A critical reading examines Luisa Valenzuela's strategy of writing which exploits the gap between the literal and the metaphoric to subvert the conventions of realistic representation. The stories analyzed to illustrate this argument include "Transparencia" (Tranparency), "Los enganosos preceptos" (Deceitful Precepts), and "El enviado"...

In the following interview conducted in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1978, Valenzuela talks about literary and other influences, the relationship between semiotics and eroticism, the similarities of love and death, her approach to language and politics in her works, the question of gendered writing and themes, and the situation of contemporary Hispanic American women writers.

In the following essay, Ainsa considers the transformation in Luisa Valenzuela's work from individual to collective fear and discusses her attempt to overcome fear through writing.

In the essay below, Kerr explicates the narrative features of Black Novel in terms of conventional crime fiction and its relation to the novela negra genre.