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Stephanie Merrim offers a long overdue and profound reconsideration of the reception and influence of existentialism, a major modern philosophical current, in the intellectual life of Mexico. This book produces not just a historical account of a significant episode in Spanish American culture but itself exemplifies a turn to existentialist ideas and concerns in contemporary criticism and theory. This is a deeply thought-out and thoroughly researched work that renews our appreciation of authors many of us thought we knew quite well, such as Rulfo and Castellanos, and argues for the current relevance of less studied writers such as the playwright Rodolfo Usigli and the novelist and activist Jose Revueltas. - Anibal Gonzalez, author of In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel

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Stephanie Merrim is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She is the author of several books including Early Modern Women’s Writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture.

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