Sylvia Molloy (Buenos Aires, 1938) was a novelist, essayist, and a leading literary critic of Latin American literature. She was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities Emerita at New York University, where she taught Latin American and comparative literatures. In 2007, at New York University, she created the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish, which was the first programme of its kind in the United States. She was the author of two novels: En común olvido (Shared Oblivion, 2002) and En breve cárcel (Soon jail, 1981), and has written several books of short prose pieces including: Varia imaginación (Varied Imagination, 2003), Citas de lectura (Reading dates, 2017), Vivir entre lenguas (Living between languages, 2016) and this book, originally entitled Desarticulaciones (2010). Her critical work includes La Diffusion de la littérature hispano-américaine en France au XXe siècle (1972), Las letras de Borges (1979), At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America (1991), Poses de fin de sigl:, Desbordes del género en la modernidad (2013), and edited volumes such as Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998) and Poéticas de la distancia: Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (2006). She was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She served as President of the Modern Language Association of America and of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana and held an honorary degree in humane letters from Tulane University.