Eduardo Mallea (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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In addition to his novels, Eduardo Mallea published a number of short stories and novellas, as well as several volumes of essays and travel books. Critics have observed that the novellas and stories can be considered brief renditions of existentialist struggles, featuring solitary characters whose lives are aimless movements in anguish and alienation. Mallea’s best-known collection of essays is Conocimiento y expresión de la Argentina (1935; knowledge and expression of Argentina), a slender volume whose point of departure is a series of lectures...
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