The latest novel by Carmen Boullosa (see WLT 66:4, p. 690; 67:4, p. 780; and 68:4, p. 788) is a linear narrative that invites instant reading consumption at the same time that it employs a number of textual retardants in the form of symbolic devices, intertextual proposals, and other hermeneutic ploys. In its episodic structure, Duerme is a narrative that whips the best out of the novel of adventure - and this by a writer who is no newcomer to this kind of fiction. For all the economy displayed in their narrative dispensation, the elements of suspense, incident, and change of ...
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