Luz Aurora Pimentel

Narrative Theory, Literary Criticism, and Comparative Literature

A life devoted to reading and analyzing the forms of storytelling: its voices, its times, its spaces, the worlds created by stories, and the ways in which literature—those worlds we inhabit—transforms our experience of the world.

About Luz Aurora

Luz Aurora Pimentel Anduiza is a professor emerita at the UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters and a national researcher emerita. She is one of the leading figures in narrative theory and comparative literature.

She is the author of seminal works such as the series of books collected under the title *Constellations*, as well as *Metaphoric Narration*, *The Narrative in Perspective*, and *Space in Fiction*. Her work opens new avenues for understanding voice, perspective, space, and metaphor in literature, as well as the ways in which narrative shapes our experience of time and the world. Her critical writings address the work of authors such as William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, among others.

For more than 60 years, it has educated generations of readers, teachers, and researchers.