Guide to the Latin American Boom - Boston Review
Detail from Presencia de América Latina, a mural painted by Mexican artist Jorge González Camarena between November 1964 and April 1965. Image: Wikimedia The writers engaged in a transfiguration of Latin American reality, from localism to a kind of heightened, imaginative view of what is real. The Boom in Spanish American Literature: A Personal History Jose Donoso Colombia University Press At Harvard in the late fifties, I took a course entitled “Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature.” With some honorable, even sensational exceptions, there weren’t many masterpieces on the reading list, though I was moved by the passion and determination of the teacher, the late and unforgettable Edward Glaser. At graduate school (Columbia), the same thing. Many weak novels were acclaimed as masterpieces from Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, and so on. I thought it odd that in an age of Proust, Joyce, and Mann, students of Spanish American literature would be handed works that could best be de
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