When Latin American woman takes in her hands the literature, it does so with the same gesture and the same intention with which takes a mirror; to contemplate his image ... The body is dressed in silks and velvets, which is decorated with precious metals and stones, which changes its appearance as a snake sheds its skin to express ... what?

The Latin American novelists seem to have discovered long before Robe-Grillet and the nouveau roman theorists that the universe is surface. And if is surface, we will polish it, not to have any harshness to the touch, any shock to the look, to shine, to shine, to make us forget this desire, this need, this mania to find what is beyond, the other side of the veil, behind the scenes.

We reamin thus bringing it gives: not develop an intimate structure, but with the development of a series of transformations.

-Rosario Castellanos