SOURCE: “Discursive Anarchy or Creative Pluralism? The Cases of Cortázar and Puig,” in Modern Language Review, Vol. 90, No. 1, January, 1995, pp. 71-82.
In the following essay, Cosgrove analyzes two Argentine novels, Puig's El beso de la mujer araña and Julio Cortázar's Rayuela, in terms of their opposition to the notion that “novels should be enabling vehicles for presenting fictional worlds of coherence and stability.”
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