This text discusses the essential features of the contemporary Mexican novel as presented by semioticians, hermeneutists, phenomenologists, rhetoricians, sociologists, psychologists, as well as deconstructionists. Furthermore, the book contributes to the understanding of Mexican and Spanish-American Literature by reinterpreting its evolution from the reader's role perspective. This volume proposes the concepts of "The Novel of the Reader," which allows the critic to argue that the restructuring of the relationship author-text-reader is one of the basic traits of Latin American literary expression during the sixties. "The critic is to be commended for attempting to bring a major current in contemporary literary theory to bear on appropriately chosen material." —Beth E. Jorgensen, Hispanic Review.