Fragmentos de entomología y parasitología en la literatura de occidente: desde Cervantes a Saramago

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 josé 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.