AGUILERA-MALTA, Demetrio Siete lunas y siete serpientes. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1975
Octavo, 378pp. A splendid example of Latin American regionalist writing, a movement sometimes overlooked by cosmopolitan commentators. Folkloristic in inspiration, the work of the Ecuadorean Aguilera-Malta exerted a strong inflence on Magical realism in general and Garcia Marquez in particular. Spine cocked. Very good in illustrated wrappers.
$US60
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