Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898-1992 by Jose Luis Venegas explores how influential Spanish and Spanish American writers used letters in their literary works to formulate distinctive visions of modernity. Bringing into the discussion authors such as Ruben Dario, Miguel de Unamuno, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Venegas reveals unsuspected connections between the authors' literary use of epistolary writing and their opinions about the place of Hispanic culture and civilization within a global...