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In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel (Pitt Illuminations) by Aníbal Gonzalez is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<i>In Search of the Sacred Book</i> studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity’s powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges’s secularized “narrative theology” in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin Am
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- Author
- Aníbal Gonzalez
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822983026
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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