Download or read book Studies in the Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story written by David William Foster and published by Columbia : University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with selected Latin-American writers of short stories and, in the case of each author, with only one or a limited number of texts. No attempt has been made to write a history of the contemporary short story in Latin America or even to deal with a canon of representative authors. Each of the texts studied has been chosen because it is indicative of a facet of the short story that parallels the so-called Latin American new novel.