On a Road to Nowhere: Circularity and Repetition in José Agustín’s Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna).
This essay examines José Agustín’s novel Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna) (1973) as a work that gives spatial form to the collapse of the Mexican state’s postwar program of autonomous industrialization. Focusing on the formal use of circularity and repetition, it argues that Agustín’s novel...
| Publicado en: | Revista de Estudios Hispánicos Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 477 - 500 |
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Washington University
oct2025
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