Argentine native Hermann has mostly retired from her career as a scholar of Spanish literature in the US. She assembled ten stories in Viajes en lapalabra y en la imagen , which was published by Ediciones de Arte Gaglanone in 1996 and sold out. For the English translation by Thornton (Spanish, Indiana U. of Pennsylvania), she has added five more stories and revised the introduction. The stories share a common theme of a journey, symbolizing the author's search for truth, freedom, peace, happiness, or justice. They are presented in sections of realism, magic realism, and the fantastic.

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Tango and feathers / María Isabel Clucellas ; Saying goodbye through twenty-five centuries / Alicia Jurado ; The postponed journey / Martha Mercader ; Haguit / Laura Nicastro ; Crossing oceans / Flaminia Ocampo ; A death in June / Mabel Pagano ; A change of heart / Silvia Plager ; Transforming the desert / Reine Roffé ; Returning by train with Borges / María Esther Vázquez ; The journey of Amatista and the dirty prince / Elvira Orphée ; The stairway in the gray patio / Irma Verolín ; Dream tiger / Rosalba Campra ; Blue lagoon / Alina Diaconú ; Compound eyes / María Rosa Lojo ; The white guanaco in the middle of France / Ana María Shua.