The Boom in Barcelona: Literary Modernism in Spanish and Spanish-American Fiction (1950-1974)

by Mayder Dravasa and Nannie Kuiper

The Boom is the socio-literary movement that brought the Latin American writers Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cort zar and the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo to fame during the 1960s. Prior studies of the Boom have essentially focused on the characteristics of the movement in Latin America and have been interested mainly in the originality or literary experimentalism of the Boom, in which these studies mirrored...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820468274
• ISBN13: 9780820468273
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.