Description: This fascinating study of the nine novels of Vicente Leñero, published between 1961 and 1985, attests to the contemporary Mexican writer's protean talent. Anderson interrogates the dual critical project that underlies Leñero's works: the constant preoccupation with the expressive potentials of the novelistic genre and the equally constant concern for a critical examination of social reality. Employing a variety of post-structural approaches in order to reveal the dynamics of this dual project, Vicente Leñero: The Novelist as Critic provides the first book-length consideration of the materials and concerns of this novelist's art.
Review Quotes: «...an attractive, well-produced book. Anderson is to be congratulated on an excellent introduction to Vicente Leñero's novelistic production. Both undergraduate and graduate programs will benefit from this well-written and lucid study of an author whose novels deserve further critical attention.» (Pamela Finnegan, Modern Fiction Studies)
«Anderson has managed some of the most dazzling analyses yet to be done of Leñero's narrative texts.» (Kirsten F. Nigro, Siglo XX)
«'The Novelist as Critic' presents the most in-depth study of Leñero's novels to date and convincingly portrays Leñero as an author worthy of more international recognition.» (Jeffrey C. Barnett, Romance Quarterly)