...This chapter deals with Raúl Ruiz's films from the 1980s,which one of his most expansive periods. During this period, Ruiz returned insistently to producing feature films, developing a distinctive style drawing on magical realism, surrealism, and the baroque, and dealing with a cluster of themes...

.... As Latin American philosophy and literature came into its own, existential and phenomenological insights were fused to hermeneutics alongside such indigenous traditions as liberation philosophy and magical realism. 1. Milan Kundera , The Art of the Novel, trans. Linda Asher...