A Game of Mirrors = Juego de espejos

Overview & Synopsis

For centuries, literature has been one of humanity’s preferred tools for deepening its knowledge of the world and expanding the horizon of its understanding. Since the advent of psychoanalysis, it has also become one of the main vehicles through which we, as species, investigate the deep connections between our present and the past. In Latin America, one of the strands of this search has been the examination of the continent’s colonial roots —although not always with the aim of understanding them, but rather of rethinking and reimagining them. The result of these speculations has been a rich constellation of literary works that, somewhere between genius and delirium, have shaped a corpus whose defining feature is that it reimagines the colonial past —not in an historical sense, but in a counterfactual one. Without any totalizing intent, this volume reflects on some of the works that belong to this tradition —one that has proven to be not only among the most productive but also among the most daring in terms of imagination