Readings

Required Textbooks

Wolf, Christa. Accident: A Day's News. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 0226905063.

Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Reissue ed. New York, NY: Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 0679724494.

Anonymous. Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels. Revised ed. Translated by Michael Alpert. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2003. ISBN: 0140449000.

Fuentes, Carlos. Aura. Bilingual ed. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. ISBN: 0374511713.

Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0192838679.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from Underground. New York, NY: Knopf Vintage Classic Series, 1994. ISBN: 067973452X. (Download Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg. Also, listen to the audiobook of Notes from the Underground, made available by LibriVox.)

Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics. New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1976. ISBN: 0156226006.

Martin Gaite, Carmen. The Back Room. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2000. ISBN: 0872863719.

Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis. Reissue ed. New York, NY: Bantam Classics, 1972. ISBN: 0553213695. (Download The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.)

Zola, Émile. Therese Raquin. Reprint ed. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 1962. ISBN: 0140441204.(Download Theresa Raquin by Émile Zola, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.)

Machado de Assis, Joaquim. Dom Casmurro. Reprint ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0195103092.

Readings by Session

The readings were assigned on the sessions indicated below. Students were expected to read assigned sections prior to the next class session and be prepared to discuss the readings in class.