On Some Uses of Photography in Contemporary Spanish-American Literature

In times of the digital dematerialization of the photographic image, how and to what purpose are present Latin American authors inserting printed photographs in their essays and fictions? A brief survey into the uses of photography in Latin American literature, the present contribution examines the hazy borderline between documentation and fictionalization, and particularly the ironic call into question of the author's identity, in works by Alan Pauls, Jorge Volpi and Mario Bellatin.