Violence and Memory: Human Rights, Redemocratization, and Literary Culture in Chile

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Detectives at the End of the World: Approaches in Twentieth-Century Chilean Literary Critique

The Verse as Being in the World: Chilean Poetry before, during, and after Pablo Neruda

Croatian-Chilean Literature: Óscar Barrientos Bradasić and Christian Formoso Bavich

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Asian-Chilean Writing and Film, and Chilean Orientalism

Carlos Franz (1959) has published novels, short stories, and essays. His novels include: El lugar donde estuvo el Paraíso (1996; The Place Where Paradise Once Was), translated into eight languages and made into a film in 2001; El desierto (2006; The Absent Sea, Kingston, NY: McPherson & Co., 2011); Almuerzo de vampiros (2007; Lunch for Vampires); and Si te vieras con mis ojos (2015; If You Saw Yourself through My Eyes), which was awarded the Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa prize, for Best Spanish Language Novel in 2014-2016.

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Introduction: Imaginary Territories

According to the young Darwin's altimeter, our three travelers have already climbed some six hundred feet above the base camp in their daring ascent to “The Roof of the Americas.” They are at an al...

from The Nature of Love

Carlos Franz (1959) has published novels, short stories, and essays. His novels include: El lugar donde estuvo el Paraíso (1996; The Place Where Paradise Once Was), translated into eight languages and made into a film in 2001; El desierto (2006; The Absent Sea, 2011); and Almuerzo de vampiros (2007; Lunch for Vampires). The following is from the opening chapter of Franz’s novel Si te vieras con mis ojos (2016; If You Saw Yourself through My Eyes), which was awarded the Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa prize for Best Spanish Language Novel in 2014-2016. In this excerpt, set in 1834, the painter “Moro” has just arrived in Valparaiso where he meets a mysterious, compelling woman.

Carlos Franz

Papers

Introduction: Imaginary Territories

from The Nature of Love

From If You Saw Yourself through My Eyes