The Latinamerican Boom

​​Krisangi Gomez

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​​Alicia Jaquez

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The agenda for today ​

This is what you will learn ​

• The Latin American Boom​: Origin

• Characteristics​

• ​Authors

The remarkable literary movement known as the Latin American Boom, an unprecedented burst of creativity, genre-bending works and success​

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BOOM!

Origins ​

The 1960s were marked by an important social upheaval that spread throughout Latin America in the economic and political environment, induced by the Cold War.​

Characteristics of the Boom​

• The Rural and the urban

• Fantasy and everyday life

• New narration

• Thematic​

Be ready to know each one of them and their works​

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Who are the Boomers?

Fuentes was undoubtedly one of the foremost Mexican writers of the 20th century. His broad range of literary accomplishments and his articulate humanism made him highly influential in the world's literary communities, particularly in that of Latin America.​

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Stay tune for more!​

Carlos Fuentes ​

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Artemio Cruz, a corrupt soldier, politician, journalist, tycoon, and lover, lies on his deathbed, recalling the shaping events of his life, from the Mexican Revolution through the development of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.​

​It is considered to be a milestone in the Latin American Boom.

The Death of Artemio Cruz

​(1962)

​Argentine novelist and short-story writer who combined existential questioning with experimental writing techniques in his works.

Julio Cortázar​

The first of the boom novels to acquire international recognition, it follows the antics and adventures of an Argentine bohemian exiled in Paris and his return to Buenos Aires.​

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Hopscotch

(1963)​

• ​Most of Latin teenagers know who wrote 100 years of Solitude and never let anyone adapt it into a film

• He won the Nobel Prize to Literature in 1982.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez ​

​A 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family

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One Hundred Years of Solitude ​

• Vargas Llosa is still alive and he is 85 years old now, ​

• As well as Marquez, he won the Nobel Prize but this time in 2010​,

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​Mario Vargas Llosa

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It is a history of Peru and Latin American dictatorships told in a conversation between two of the characters who meet in a cathedral, a bar and a cheap eating house.​

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Conversation in the Cathedral (1969)

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​any questions?

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Thank you!​