Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index.
Contents
List of Illustrations -- The City As Text and Paris As Fiction -- Desiring Paris -- The Latin American Conception of the Lettered City, 1840 to 1960 -- The Interstices of Desire -- Paris As Passageway in Julio Cortazar's Short Fiction -- The Immovable Feast -- Paris and Politics in Manuel Scorza's La danza inmovil -- On the Border -- Cultural and Linguistic Trespassing in Alfredo Bryce Echenique's La vida exagerada de Martin Romana and El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de Cadiz -- Paris Under Her Skin -- Luisa Futoransky's Urban Inscriptions of Exile -- Epilogue.