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Edición

4th ed.

Descripción

1 online resource (xiii, 516 pages) : portraits

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Bibliografía

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contenido

Publisher's note -- Contributors -- Key to pronunciation -- Achebe, Chinua -- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi -- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef -- Aidoo, Ama Ata -- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke -- Alarcon, Daniel -- Aleichem, Sholom -- Allende, Isabel -- Arreola, Juan Jose -- Asturias, Miguel Angel -- Babel, Isaac -- Bombal, Maria Luisa -- Borges, Jorge Luis -- Bunin, Ivan -- Carpentier, Alejo -- Chandra, Vikram -- Chekhov, Anton -- Cliff, Michelle -- Cortazar, Julio -- Dazai, Osamu -- Desai, Anita -- Donoso, Jose -- Dostoevski, Fyodor -- Dovlatov, Sergei -- Endo, Shusaku -- Fuentes, Carlos -- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel -- Gogol, Nikolai -- Gordimer, Nadine -- Gorky, Maxim -- Guimaraes Rosa, Joao -- Head, Bessie -- Hearn, Lafcadio -- Ihara Saikaku -- Jin, Ha -- Kawabata, Yasunari -- Leskov, Nikolai -- Lispector, Clarice -- Lu Xun -- Nahman of Bratslav, Rabbi -- Naipaul, V.S. -- Narayan, R.K. -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Oe, Kenzaburo -- Okri, Ben -- Onetti, Juan Carlos -- Oz, Amos -- Pasternak, Boris -- Pu Songling -- Pushkin, Alexander -- Quiroga, Horacio -- Rasputin, Valentin -- Rulfo, Juan -- Rushdie, Salman -- Senior, Olive -- Shalamov, Varlam -- Sinyavsky, Andrei -- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr -- Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro -- Tolstaya, Tatyana -- Tolstoy, Leo -- Turgenev, Ivan -- Valenzuela, Luisa -- Vargas Llosa, Mario -- Wang Anyi -- Wicomb, Zoe -- Xu Xi -- Zamyatin, Yevgeny -- Zhang Jie -- Zoshchenko, Mikhail -- Terms and techniques -- Bibliography -- Guide to online resources.

Sumario

Examines writers from a wide range of different countries, including Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges, China's Ha Jin, India's Salman Rushdie, and Russia's Alexander Puskin. New writers include Japan's Haruki Murakami, and Jamaican Michelle Cliff.

Nota

Print version record.

Materia

Short story.

Short story -- Bio-bibliography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.

Short story.

Género/Forma

Bio-bibliography.

Otro Autor

May, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1941-

Otro Título

World writers

Otro formato:

Print version: Critical survey of short fiction. World writers. 4th ed. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587657993 (OCoLC)794992093

ISBN

9781587658082 (electronic bk.)

1587658089 (electronic bk.)