French Quarter Tales

Genaro Jesse Perez

Dec 2006 · iUniverse

About this ebook

Magic realism is a term that is often used to describe the fiction of such Latin American writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges. Literary critics such as Seymour Menton have contended that it is also present in the art and literature of Germany, Italy, France and the United States after World War I. The stories in French Quarter Tales follow such a tradition by presenting unusual (and even supernatural) situations within very familiar settings. Professor Perez explores in these stories the boundaries between reality and the supernatural, love and hate, good and evil. In these tales the everyday meets the recondite and sometimes even the terrifying. Most of these postmodern short tales are left open and defy interpretation.

About the author

Genaro J. Perez is Professor of Hispanic Literature at Texas Tech University. His academic publications include five books: Formalist Elements in the Novels of Juan Goytisolo, 1979; La novelística de J. Leyva, 1985; La novela como burla/juego: siete experimentos novelescos de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, 1989; La narrativa de Concha Alós: texto, pretexto y contexto, 1993; Ortodoxia y heterodoxia de la novela policiaca hispana: Variaciones sobre el género negro, 2002. He has also written two books of poetry (Prosapoemas and Spanish Quarter Notes) and a novel (The Memoirs of John Conde). Co-Editor and Managing Editor of Monographic Review/Revista monográfica. Over fifty articles published in refereed journals (Hispania, Insula, Letras Femeninas, Confluencia, Romance Notes, Hispanófila, etc.) Hundreds of book reviews have appeared in professional journals, and he has presented over 110 papers at regional, national and international professional meetings.