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The “Boom”
In Latin American Literature
Literary Movement
During 1960s and 1970s Latin American authors began to gain
international attention at a rapid pace Considered beginning of modern Latin
American literature Appealed especially to university
students around world
According to Carlos Fuentes,"the so-called boom, in reality,is the result of a literature that has at least fourcenturies of existence and that felt an urgency in adefinitive moment of ourhistory to update and and togive order to the manylessons of the past.“
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InfluencesPrecursors: Jorge Luís Borges and Juan Rulfo Surrealism, Vanguardismo, Modernismo European and American literature after WWI and WWII
James Joyce Jean Paul Sartre Virginia Woolf French New Novel William Faulkner
Cuban Revolution
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Major Authors
Mario Vargas Llosa La cuidad y los perros (1962)
Carlos Fuentes La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962)
Julio Cortázar Rayuela (1963)
Gabriel García Márquez Cien años de soledad (1967)
Guillermo Cabrera Infante Tres Tristes Tigres (1967)
Severo Sarduy De donde son los cantantes (1967)
José Donoso El obsceno pájaro de la noche (1970)
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Characteristics Hard to define but common traits include:
Break away from traditional literary devices Realism, picturesque, criollismo
Focus on Latin America history, culture, economic, and socio-political
Innovate and experimental Magical realism/fantastic Existentialism Psychology Universal themes Language
Latin America’s New Novel Does not have a definite
definition Cause an effect is
substituted for multiple perspectives and intersecting plots, which makes the narrative seem fragmented
Magical realism Literary creation Universal themes
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New Novel continued Incorporate discussion
about mass culture and mass consumption of information
Play with words Reader creates and
deciphers the text Anti-hero Social criticism Urban
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Bibliography Donoso, José. Historia personal del Boom. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1972.
Friedman, Edward H., L.Teresa Valdivieso, and Carmelo Virgillo, eds.
Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hispánica. 5th ed. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Ocasio, José. Literature of Latin America. Westport: Greenwood, 2004.
Sklodowska, Elizbieta. “El Boom y la Nueva Novela.” Huellas de las
literaturas hispanoamericanas. Ed. Ann Marie McCarthy. 2nd ed. Upper
Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2002. 508-513.