The four blows that knocked out the Latin American ‘boom’

2023-08-09 04:41:03
Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez. A quartet of geniuses, perhaps titans and vedettes, whose correspondence, recently published by Alfaguara, recounts the beginning, rise and fall of one of the most prolific movements in Latin American and universal literature of the 20th century, the Latin American ‘boom’. In the literary weigh-in there are two Nobel Prize winners, Vargas Llosa and Gabo, and two Cervantes, which could have been four if it weren’t for the fact that the Colombian rejected the award twice and the Argentine was never awarded. The editors Gerald Martin, Carlos Aguirre, Javier Munguía and Augusto Wong Campos restricted the literary representation of the ‘boom’ to only these four writers, considering them the most powerful. They arrive… See More
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