21
Sergio Ramírez, Sombras nada más (Mexico City: Alfaguara, 2002), p. 34. Subsequent references will be given in the body of the text, preceded by SNM.
22
Ernesto Cardenal, who is
partly of German-Jewish ancestry and grew up in the same circles as Hüeck,
writes: «Durante mi juventud fuimos algo amigos, cuando [Hüeck] no era canalla
como lo fue después; y también éramos un poco parientes por judíos»
(La
revolución perdida, p. 250).
23
For a detailed discussion of this tendency in Ramírez's narrative technique and the depiction of history in his fiction, see my «History after History's End: Cultural Reconstruction in Margarita, está linda la mar», in Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings, ed. by Irene Maria F. Blayer and Mark Cronlund Anderson (New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 2004), pp. 62-74.
24
Hortensia Campanella, «Entrevista con Sergio Ramírez», Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 648 (June 2004), 45-52 (p. 52).
25
Against Literature (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), pp. 70-71.
26
Testimonio hispano-americano: historia, teoría, poética (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), p. 99.
27
La marca del zorro: hazañas del comandante Francisco Rivera Quintero contadas a Sergio Ramírez (Managua: Nueva Nicaragua, 1989), p. 13.
28
Abelardo Cuadra, Hombre del Caribe: memorias presentadas y pasadas en limpio por Sergio Ramírez (San José: EDUCA, 1977), p. 11.
29
The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 179.
30
In 2003 Alemán was sentenced to twenty years in prison for acts of corruption committed during his presidency.