TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eloy Urroz
TI  - The Obstacles
SN  - 9781564784278
AV  - PQ7298.31.R73 
U1  - 863.64 
PB  - Dalkey Archive Press
N2  - One of the most remarkable books of contemporary Mexican literature, The Obstacles is the story of young writers coming of age in a world dominated entirely by their own fictions. It tells, in alternating chapters, the stories of two teenagers, Ricardo and Elias, who are characters in each others' novels.Blurring our notions of reality and fiction, Eloy Urroz takes the reader into a world where characters invent characters and challenge their creators. And the book's conclusion--in which a surprising connection between Ricardo and Elias is revealed--shows that not even fiction can be controlled in a world of such incredible unpredictability
ER  -