Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa. Las cartas del Boom. Edición de Carlos Aguirre, Gerald Martin, Javier Munguía y Augusto Wong Campos. Barcelona: Alfaguara, 2023, 568 pp.
Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa. The Letters of the Boom. Edited by Carlos Aguirre, Gerald Martin, Javier Munguía, and Augusto Wong Campos. Barcelona: Alfaguara, 2023, 568 pages.

Summary/Abstract: Last summer, after having written papers for two international conferences on the Latin American literary boom, a copy of Las cartas del Boom came into my hands. This volume collects "the correspondence between the four main novelists of the Latin American Boom: Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa" (13). The fact carried a certain tragic irony that I had to accept with humor, as the book came to question or, in many cases, confirm hypotheses and assertions about the boom—in dialogue with the copious critical literature generated around it—but this time the confirmations would come directly from its most conspicuous protagonists. In this sense, Las cartas del Boom presented itself as a kind of chronicle of revelations foretold.

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