Carolyn Wolfenzon s New Book Illuminates a Ghoulish Theme in Modern Mexican Literature In a new book of literary criticism, Romance languages and literatures associate professor Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego explores how eight contemporary Mexican authors adhere to a tradition of writing about ghosts but with a catch.
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Carolyn Wolfenzon
Carlos Fuentes s 1964 short novel
Aura describes
a youthful ghost sharing a home and a body with an old woman. In Juan Rulfo s
Pedro Páramo, published in 1955, an entire village is inhabited by ghosts. These characters are ethereal, with uncertain or no corporeality.
In her new book,