This Companion offers a broad overview of the Latin American novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. Students of Latin American studies and comparative literature will find this a stimulating and indispensable guide. Notes on contributors vii Acknowledgments xi Note on translations xii Chronology xiii Introduction 1(22) EFRAIN KRISTAL Part I: History 1 The nineteenth-century Latin American novel 23(21) NAOMI LINDSTROM 2 The regional novel and beyond 44(15) BRIAN GOLLNICK 3 The Boom of the Latin American novel 59(22) JOHN KING 4 The Post-Boom novel 81(24) PHILIP SWANSON Part II: Heterogeneity 5 The Brazilian novel 105(20) PIERS ARMSTRONG 6 The Caribbean novel 125(17) WILLIAM LUIS 7 The Andean novel 142(20) ISMAEL MÁRQUEZ 8 The Central American novel 162(21) ROY C. BOLAND OSEGUEDA Part III: Gender and sexuality 9 Gender studies 183(17) CATHERINE DAVIES 10 The lesbian and gay novel in Latin America 200(19) DANIEL BALDERSTON AND JOSÉ MARISTANY Part IV: Six novels 11 Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis 219(13) MARTA PEIXOTO 12 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo 232(13) JASON WILSON 13 The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector 245(13) CLAIRE WILLIAMS 14 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez 258(12) STEVEN BOLDY 15 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 270(13) STEPHEN HART 16 The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa 283(14) MICHELLE CLAYTON Epilogue 17 The Latin American novel in English translation 297(21) SUZANNE JILL LEVINE Bibliography 318(5) COMPILED BY KELLY AUSTIN AND RYAN KERNAN Index 323