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By Juan Forn

From the Introduction

The publication of this working paper revives an honored tradition of the Latin American Program - nurturing Latin American literature, both its creation and its academic analysis. Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and José Donoso are some who spent periods of time working on their novels in the Wilson Center. Juan Forn wrote the final chapters of his novel Frivolidad in one of the many towers of the Center, as a Guest Scholar. The novel has been published in Argentina, in Spanish, and received an enthusiastic reception from the local critics. We are pleased to offer a preview of the first three chapters of the English translation of Frivolidad so that more of the friends of the Latin American Program can have an opportunity to meet Juan Forn.

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