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The aim of the paper is to analyze El sueño del señor juez (2000) by Carlos Gamerro in the light of his two recent essays: Ficciones barrocas (2010) and Facundo o Martín Fierro (2015). Gamerro, whose novel is representative for the revisionist tendency of reinterpreting the Argentinian XIXth century, very present in the Argentinian narrative after the last dictatorship, retakes the opposition between two classics: Martín Fierro and Facundo, and thanks to different textual games creates a "baroque fiction", pointing out the baroquization of the Argentinian reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars of Latin-American literatures and cultures have tended to be suspicious of postcolonial studies, but recently their doubts were overcome. Jaroszuk explores the growing impact of postcolonial studies on debates concerning Latin-American identities. César Aira’s cycle on the pampa is among the many contemporary Argentine texts marked by what Alfonso de Toro describes as a shift in the identity paradigm. Jaroszuk examines three novels from this cycle: Ema, the captive, The hare and An episode in the life of a landscape painter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]