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 Efraín
Kristal
Professor
kristal@ucla.edu
(310) 206-0552
Humanities
Professor Efraín Kristal was an
undergraduate in Comparative Literature at University of
California, Berkeley. He holds a Maîtrise in Philosophy from
the University of Rouen and a Ph.D. in Spanish literature
from Stanford University. He studied analytic philosophy in
the United States and literary theory at the École Normale
Supérieure in Paris. He was a fellow of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation in Berlin. He has published numerous
essays on Latin American literature and intellectual
history, as well as two books: The Andes Viewed from the
City: Literary and Political Discourse on the Indian in Peru
(1987) and Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario
Vargas Llosa (1998). The themes of his most recent essays
include captivity and incest in North and South American
literatures; the Spanish historical epic of the 16th
century and its French and Italian antecedents; the literary
theory of Burke, Frye, Bloom, and Steiner. He is currently
working on Jorge Luis Borges's translations from the
English, German, and French, and on the renaissance context
of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. He teaches courses on poetry,
Latin American literature in comparative contexts (Borges
and Kafka, the Joycean novel in Latin America, etc.), and on
topics such as the theories of translation, and literary
theory and the rhetoric of religion. He is also interested
in theater, opera, and painting.
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