Introduction: private eyes & time travelers. (detective fiction and science fiction from Latin America) (Latin America: Private Eyes & Time Travelers)

The Literary Review | September 22, 1994| | Copyright

A FEW YEARS AGO A STRANGE, SURPRISING BOOK came to my hands: a collection of Science Fiction stories by American Jewish writers. Accustomed as a reader to the type of shtetl folklore recurrent in the art of Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer, I was intrigued by the mere thought of Tevyes and Herzogs in outer space. Since memory and the past are par excellence Jewish terrains, to use fiction to point to a technological future is, one might say, an anachronism. Similarly, to discover tales of science and detective fiction by Latin American writers might seem absurd to ...

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