%0 Journal Article %T Fragmentos de entomolog¨ªa y parasitolog¨ªa en la literatura de occidente: desde Cervantes a Saramago Fragments of entomology and parasitology in the western lierature: from Cervantes to Saramago %A Hugo Schenone %A Rub¨¦n Mercado %J Bolet¨ªn chileno de parasitolog¨ªa %D 2001 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X In an attempt to amplify the perspective of allusions made to entomological and parasitological situations in the 20th century Latin American narrative, a total of 25 books written by Jorge Amado (1912-2001), Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974), Albert Camus (1913-1960), Camilo Jos¨¦ Cela (1916), Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Julio Cortazar (1914-1984), Fedor Dostoievski (1821-1881), Jorge Edwards (1931), William Faulkner (1897-1962), Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928), Herman Hesse (1877-1962), Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Patricio Manns (1937), Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920), Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Marcel Proust (1871-1922), Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Jose Saramago (1922), Alexander Soljenitsin (1918) and Leon Tolstoy (1828-1910) has been reviewed. We have selectively extracted paragraphs and fragments from them, in which in a direct or metaphoric form varied entomological or parasitological situations are quoted, by thematic affinity, in an ordered presentation. %K entomolog¨ªa %K arasitolog¨ªa %K literatura %K occidente %K entomology %K parasitology %K literature %K west %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0365-94022001000200009