ALAZRAKI, Jaime

ALAZRAKI, Jaime. American (born Argentina), b. 1934. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor of Latin American Literature, Columbia University, New York, since 1987. Member, Editorial Board, Hispanic Review, Latin American Literary Review, PMLA, Hispania, Hispanic Journal, Revista Iberoamericana, and Discurso Literario-revista de temas hispanicos. Instructor, Columbia University, NYC, 1964-67; Assistant Professor, 1967-68, Associate Professor, 1968-71, and Professor of Spanish Literature, 1972-77, University of California at San Diego. Member, Executive Council, International Institute of Ibero-American Literature, 1975-77. Professor of Latin American Literature, Harvard University, 1977-87. Co-ed., Revista Hispanica Moderna, 1987. Publications: Poetica y poesia de Pablo Neruda, 1965; La Prosa Narrativa de Jorge Luis Borges, 1968, rev. ed. 1974; Jorge Luis Borges, 1971; Versiones/inversiones/reversiones: el espejo como modelo estructural del relato en los cuentos de Borges, 1977; En busca del unicornio: les cuentos de Julio Cortazar, 1983; Critical Essays on Jorge Luis Borges, 1987; Borges and the Kabbalah and Other Essays, 1988; Hacia Cortázar: aproximaciones a su obra, 1994. EDITOR: (co-) Homenaje a Andres Iduarte, 1976; Jorge Luis Borges: el escritor y la critica, 1976; (co-) The Final Island: The Fiction of Julio Cortazar, 1978; Rayuela, 1980; Antologia de la novela hispanoamericana, 2 vols., 1982; J. Cortázar, Obra Crítica, 1994; J. Cotázar, Final del juego, 1995. Address: Dept of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University, Casa Hispanica, 612 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A.