Abstract

From America South

This article presents information on the collection of eighteen Latin American stories and novelettes; except for a few fads dropped by author Katherine Anne Porter in her introduction, it is not mentioned whether the writers are young or old, professional literary men, workers, or diplomats, successful or still unknown. But whatever the background of their authors, only two of the stories are about people of education and social privilege. "Fiesta in November," the title piece by the Argentinian Eduardo Mallea, is an impressionistic study of a decaying upper-class family, symbolically interwoven with the account of an incident of fascist violence; it has considerable emotional power but it is turgid and forced in the writing and sentimental in its choice of detail.