The Lust of Seeing: Themes of the Gaze and Sexual Rituals in the Fiction of Felisberto Hernandez

In recent years an international reassessment of Uruguayan fiction writer Felisberto Hernandez has earned this relatively obscure and unread author new stature as a master of fantastic and autobiographical fiction. Major Hernandez themes such as the mirror, doubling, and fragmentation; narcissistic construction of idealized women-objects; fetishes and animism; etc., are treated in depth.