Description: This introduction to Benet's writing includes a foreword by Malcolm Alan Compitello, professor of Spanish and head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, author of Ordering the Evidence: Volverás a Región and Civil War Fiction and coeditor of Critical Approaches to the Writing of Juan Benet.
Brief description: Benjamin Fraser is an assistant professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the College of Charleston. Managing editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies and executive editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Fraser is also the author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City and Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain as well as over four dozen published articles.
Review Quotes:
Fraser does not simply rehash the observations of scholars; he sets out to offer new, interdisciplinary perspectives that provide insights to Benet's fictional world.
-- "Bulletin of Spanish Studies"