El World Literature Today dedica este artículo a Las segundas criaturas, de Diego Cornejo Menacho
         What  is most striking about Diego Cornejo Menacho’s third novel is how his  proliferating imagination frees just about every known narrative  component into daring versions of what a novel can do. This is  particularly positive since he builds fiction from metafiction, avoiding  the typical traps of our abundantly solipsistic times. Cornejo’s  inspired idea is to write an apocryphal and blatantly partial biography  by defictionalizing “Marcelo Chiriboga,” purportedly an overlooked  Ecuadorian Boom writer who kept appearing, Zelig-like, in novels and  nonfiction by the real Boom writers José Donoso and Carlos Fuentes.   Las segundas criaturas , one of  the best novels of its type of the last thirty years, is superior to  what Fuentes and Donoso could have done with their misfiring yarn. The  dominant point of view is a Catalan literary agent’s who, like Donoso’s  in The Garden Next Door , is modeled on the Boom matriarch  Carmen Balcells. Equally dominant is the refictionalize...