The Boom in Spanish American Literature: A Personal History

By José Donoso

Book Overview

An authentic and sincere report on Carlos Fuentes, MarioVargas Losa, Julio Cortazar and others. This edition includes two appendixes. The first iswritten by Donoso's wife and includes an intimate look... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231041640
• ISBN13: 9780231041645
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Columbia University Press in association with the Center for Inter-American Relations
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.

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The sixties: after cuban revolution, a group of latinamerican writes became stars. They was born in differente places of Latinamerica and they didn't know each other, but, they became famous. All of them, amazing writers had a relationship with the difficult moment of Latinamerica. Many of them had to leave their countries. They started the well known "Magic realism" and they became friends. This book is about those writers, their lives, their travels and, specially, it is about their relationship (and friendship). It is the true story abou García Márquez, Cortázar, Fuentes, Donoso, Vargas Llosa and some important artists of the "Boom", the explosion of latinamerican literature all around the world.