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Curious occurrences / Andrés Bello -- Niagara / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento -- Washington and Bolívar / Juan Montalvo -- At the tomb of Segundo Ruiz Belvis / Eugenio María de Hostos -- Our bedouins / Manuel González Prada -- The earthquake at Charleston / José Martí -- Theodore Roosevelt / Baldomero Sanín Cano -- The rubber men / Euclides da Cunha -- How a newspaper should be / José Enrique Rodó -- Tobacco and sugar / Fernando Ortiz -- Books I read sitting and books I read standing / José Vasconcelos -- Indian things / Pedro Henríquez Ureña -- My homeland / Gabriela Mistral -- Notes on the American mind / Alfonso Reyes -- Anthropophagite manifesto / Oswald de Andrade -- Women in the academy / Victoria Ocampo -- Jail: prison memoirs / Graciliano Ramos -- Of hypocrisy / Mário de Andrade -- Art, revolution, and decadence / José Carlos Mariátegui -- Thoreau / Ezequiel Martínez Estrada -- A visit to the Alphonsine Chapel / Concha Meléndez -- The use of thought / Samuel Ramos -- America's Quixotic character / Jorge Mañach Robato -- Lake Titicaca / Miguel Angel Asturias -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- El Socorro Lake / Lydia Cabrera -- Slaves in newspaper ads / Gilberto Freyre -- Do they know us? Do we know them? Do we know each other? / Germán Arciniegas -- Josephine Baker in Cuba / Nicolás Guillén -- To be Argentine / Eduardo Mallea -- A macaw at the pole / Luis Cardoza y Aragón -- Prologue: the kingdom of the world / Alejo Carpentier -- The nobel address / Pablo Neruda -- The other America / Arturo Uslar Pietri -- Anna Karenina / José Bianco -- In defense of the essay / Enrique Anderson Imbert -- Hermit crabs / Eduardo Caballero Calderón -- The great arc of the novel / Ernesto Sábato -- Notes for memories I'll never write / Jorge Amado -- Summa critica of American culture / José Lezama Lima -- Concerning an American philosophy / Leopoldo Zea -- Books and friendship / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- To dress a shadow / Julio Cortázar -- Mexican churches / Octavio Paz -- Writing: a metaphor for exile / Augusto Roa Bastos -- Fecundity / Augusto Monterroso -- Horacio Quiroga in the mirror / Emir Rodríguez Monegal -- Interlude in the south Atlantic / Alvaro Mutis -- The writer's commitment / Claribel Alegría -- Ithaca: the impossible return / José Donoso -- Aberrant nostalgia / Sebastián Salazar Bondy -- Once again, Sor Juana / Rosario Castellanos -- Creating Brasilia / Clarice Lispector -- Literature and exile / Angel Rama -- How I started to write / Carlos Fuentes -- Uses and abuses of the umbrella / Gabriel García Márquez -- Solve this case for me / Jorge Ibarguengoitia -- Scenes of a world without Columbus / Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- Caliban: a question / Roberto Fernández Retamar -- Apocalypse and chaos / Antonio Benítez Rojo -- The perfect page / Alejandro Rossi -- My debt to Flaubert / Salvador Elizondo -- Cinema and the novel / Manuel Puig -- And here's to you, Jesusa / Elena Poniatowska -- Caribbeanness / Luis Rafael Sánchez -- Novels disguised as history / Mario Vargas Llosa -- Writing/transvestism / Severo Sarduy -- On destiny, language, and translation; or, Ophelia adrift in the C. & O. Canal / Rosario Ferré -- Guess your decade: a questionnaire / Carlos Monsiváis -- Little manifesto / Luisa Valenzuela -- Temptation of America / Eduardo Galeano -- The spirits were willing / Isabel Allende -- Adiós, General / Ariel Dorfman -- Melancholy at the Hotel Empress / Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá -- Letter of 30 June 1994 / Subcomandante Marcos -- I. Rigoberta Menchú / Rigoberta Menchú -- The verbal quest / Ilan Stavans.