Writing the Apocalypse
Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction

"Lois Parkinson Zamora has produced a genuinely profound study of the topic, beginning with an investigation of biblical apocalypse that leads her to some extremely valuable insights. She is then able to apply those insights fruitfully to the works of several key writers: Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortázar, John Barth, Walker Percy, and Carlos Fuentes." World Literature Today

"Lois Parkinson Zamora has produced a genuinely profound study of the topic, beginning with an investigation of biblical apocalypse that leads her to some extremely valuable insights. She is then able to apply those insights fruitfully to the works of several key writers: Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortázar, John Barth, Walker Percy, and Carlos Fuentes." William L. Siemens, World Literature Today

"Writing the Apocalypse is a capacious, broadminded, scholarly, and keenly perceptive work that deserves the attention of all those interested in the comparative study of the literature of the Americas. Zamora joins a small but significant group of scholars striving to bring their field into the forefront of the humanities." Michael Valdez Moses, American Literature

"Students of American literature studies can benefit greatly from such broad yet detailed analyses, which place the literature of both hemispheres within a common trajectory. Zamora has performed a valuable service in drawing a comparative scheme which not only takes note of the differences between the cultures, but actually avails itself of these contrasts in order to reinforce the underlying continuity, the cultural myths which formed, and which continue to shape, the bases of Western thought." S. E. de Carvalho, Romance Quarterly

"Writing the Apocalypse is a genuinely comparative study of the Americas and the apocalyptic aspirations introduced to the New World by European settlers... Lois Parkinson Zamora is to be commended for writing a challenging, provocative, learned study, equally relevant to North America and the Southern continent." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies No. 31

"...rarely do we find a work of this caliber with such depth of scholarly grounding and breadth of critical approach....Lois Parkinson Zamora's Writing the Apocalypse both informs convincingly and suggests the possibility of further studies in a similar vein....Every Hispanist who is concerned with the dynamics of contemporary literature in Latin America--not to mention the U.S.--should read this excellent work." Hispanic Review