Dismantling

Sylvia Molloy (Buenos Aires, 1938) is a novelist, essayist, and a leading literary critic of Latin American literature. She was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities Emerita at New York University, where she taught Latin American and comparative literatures. In 2007, at New York University, she created the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish, which was the first programme of its kind in the United States.  She is the author of two novels: En común olvido (Shared Oblivion, 2002) and En breve cárcel (Soon jail, 1981), and has written several books of short prose pieces including: Varia imaginación (Varied Imagination, 2003), _Citas de lectura _(Reading dates, 2017), Vivir entre lenguas (Living between languages, 2016) and this book, originally entitled _Desarticulaciones _(2010). Her critical work includes At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991), and Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998). She has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She lives in New York and this is her first book to appear in English.