World Literature Today, March 22nd, 2002
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 the lasting unease generated by the repressive Argentine military regime of 1976-83. She has created numerous narratives in which authoritarian rule in society is mirrored by patriarchal domination in relations between men and women. La travesia, Valenzuela's new novel set principally in late-1990s New York, develops all ...
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