Latin American Boom
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The Latin American Boom (Boom Latinoamericano) is the name applied to a period during the 1960s and 1970s when the work of a group of relatively young Latin American novelists became widely circulated in Europe and throughout the world. These latin american literature starts with the rising of Jose Marti, Ruben Darío and José Asunción Silva´s modernism stepping aside from the european canon of writing.
This sudden success (hence the movement's name) came in large part thanks to the fact that these authors' works were among the first Latin American novels to be published in Europe, by publishing houses such as Barcelona's Seix Barralin Spain. One of these published novels was the novel La ciudad y los Perros written by Mario Vargas Llosa.
The Boom's major representatives include:
- the Argentine Julio Cortázar borned in Belgium in 1914 and died in Paris, France in 1985, he was influenced by Borges his works are Final del Juego, Bestiario, Las Armas Secretas, Todos los juegos el fuego, the storytellers of Rayuela and the Premios, Winners in 1960, novels like: Historias de Cronopios y de famas and another famous novel is Vuelta al día en 80 mundos. His most important work was the novel Rayuela.
- the Mexicans Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz and Juan Rulfo]
- the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, he jumped out to fame with his novel La ciudad y los perros. In this novel he gathers hate, and violence, proper elements of a city. He also wrote La Casa Verde, Los Cachorros, Pantaleón y las Visitadoras, Conversaciones en la Catedral, La tía Julia y el Escribidor. The characteristics of his novels were a complex tecnique where there are overlapping monologues, dialogues, actions, different spaces and time. He gives very vague descriptions with an implacable and hard style of writting. One of his most important dialogues of this famous peruvian novelist is called Día Domingo.
and perhaps especially
- the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez.
However, in the light of these authors' success, the work of a previous generation of writers (such as Jorge Luis Borges (1898-1986) his famous novels were Fervor de Buenos Aires, Luna de Enfrente, El Aleph, Historia Universal de la Infamia, Ficciones, Elogio de las Sombras, informe de Crodie, Oro de los Tigres, Inquisiciones e Historia de la Eternidad He wrote stories that he described as fiction or symbolic stories, with real or imaginary characters which move between the reality, magic and satire scene. Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo) also gained access to a new and expanded public.
As well as being a publishing phenomenon, the Boom introduced a series of novel aesthetic and stylistic features to world literature. Though the various Boom authors often differ very much from each other, and should not be regarded strictly as a school or movement, they have come to be associated above all with so-called magical realism.
