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Item On "Luminous Cities" ("Urbes luminosas", 1991) by Eduardo García Aguilar(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2003-02-15) Braham, PersephoneColombian writer and journalist Eduardo García Aguilar’s collection of twenty-five short stories is headed by three epigraphs: one by Gabriel García Márquez that describes the simulacra of memory; one by Carlos Fuentes lamenting the condition of the perennial outsider; and one by Jorge Luis Borges, which reviews the ephemeral nature of reality and the lucid concreteness of artistic representation.Item On "Magdalena. A Fable of Immortality" by Beatriz Escalante(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2003-02-15) Braham, PersephoneMexican author Beatriz Escalante has written a fable of feminine ambition in which the central figure, an alchemist and sorceress, ultimately realizes her full intellectual potential.