Enrique Anderson Imbert

Enrique Anderson-Imbert (February 12, 1910– December 6, 2000) was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer and literary critic.

Born in Córdoba, Argentina, the son of Jose Enrique Anderson and Honorina Imbert, Anderson-Imbert graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a Ph.D. in 1946. From 1940 until 1947 he taught at the University of Tucumán. In 1947, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954. He became the first Victor S. Thomas Professor of Hispanic Literature at Harvard University in 1965. Anderson-Imbert remained at Harvard until his retirement in 1980. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967.

Anderson-Imbert is best known for his brief "microcuentos" in which he blends fantasy and magical realism. His story "Sala de espera" is taken from The Cheshire Cat, written in 1965; he is also the author of the 1966 short story entitled "Taboo." He also penned the short stories "El Leve Pedro", "El Fantasma", and "Vudu".

With his wife, Margot (née Di Clerico), a librarian, Anderson-Imbert had a son and a daughter. He died on December 6, 2000, in Buenos Aires.

Essays

 * La flecha en el aire (1937)
 * Ibsen y su tiempo (1946)
 * Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana (1955), (one vol., many reprintings and amplified   into two volumes.)
 * Una aventura amorosa de Sarmiento (1969)
 * Teoría de cuento (1978)
 * La Crítica Literaria y sus Métodos (1979)
 * El Realismo Mágico y Otros Ensayos (1979)
 * Mentiras y Mentirosos en el Mundo de las Letras (1993)
 * La Prosa (1984)
 * Nuevos Estudios Sovre Letras Hispanas (1986)

Narratives

 * Vigilia (1934)
 * El Gato de Cheshire (1965)
 * El Grimorio (1969)
 * Victoria (1977)
 * La Botella de Klein (1978)
 * La Locura Juega al Ajedrez (1971)
 * Los Primeros Cuentos del Mundo (1978)
 * Anti-Story: an Anthology of Experimental Fiction (1971)
 * La Sandía