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Article: Introduction: private eyes & time travelers. (detective fiction and science fiction from Latin America) (Latin America: Private Eyes & Time Travelers)
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- The Literary Review
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- September 22, 1994
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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 some. After all, today's readership in the United States is accustomed to a set of symbols and motifs ...
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