Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature: Between Romanticism and Formalism

With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture. It is the first major study in English that focuses on texts by contemporary Argentine writers Ricardo Piglia, Guillermo Martínez, and Marcelo Cohen, which draw on theories of formal syst…