101 - ¿Qué fue el boom Latinoamericano? Con Ángel Esteban autor del libro "De Gabo a Mario"
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Welcome to this episode of Bibliotequeando. This is your host, Ricardo Lugo, at Bibliotequeando en las Redes. Today I have an excellent conversation with Ángel Esteban, author of the book De Gabo a Mario. Tell us, what was the history of the Latin American boom, this golden age? of literature in Spanish, how it emerged, what were the parameters, what is the Latin American boom, how it joined politics, specifically the Cuban Revolution of the 60s, and how with the fraud of that same revolution it ends destroying internally the Latin American boom. We will talk about political persecution, we will talk about the letters that were signed against Fidel Castro, that different great authors of the Latin American boom signed, others decided not to sign.
The consequences of this, we will talk about the famous punch from Vargas Llosa to Gabriel García Márquez and at the same time how Vargas Llosa was not expected to win the Nobel Prize. So this has been an excellent conversation to understand the history and context of the Latin American boom. I hope you enjoy it, as always, at Arroba Bibliotequeando. Keep subscribing, supporting the podcast, promoting knowledge through books. For many people to understand, they don't really understand the historical context of the Latin American boom. I wanted you to give us a short introduction, what it was, starting with it, the boom.
The Latin American world was a time when Spanish literature that was written in Latin America had a very important repercussion outside of its countries, outside of its natural environment. That is to say, Colombian literature was not known in Venezuela, Cuban literature was not known in Argentina, and the great authors, or perhaps very few, the most classic, were not even known in neighboring countries. So it's a moment in which after the Second World War and in the moment in which they are starting in Latin America a series of revolutions or also of the economic and cultural development process, a boom is produced, as it was called, of literature in Latin America because it is internationalized.
That's a bit of the historical context.
And for those who don't know, who were the main actors, authors of this boom? Who were the emblems?
Well, the main authors were those who began to write precisely in the late 50s, early 60s, because the boom, let's say, came to explode in the mid-60s. The fundamental core or the fundamental moment that is always talked about is the publication of 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, which is 1967. But before that, there had been a series of writers and a series of works that had had a wide repercussion Carlos Fuentes had already published some works that had repercussions outside of Mexico. The case of Cortázar, Cortázar with Rayuela, which was in 1963, was also a work that had a lot of repercussion outside of Argentina and outside of France. He lived in France at that time. And then Mario Vargas Llosa, who is an author who was very young, much younger than all of us that I have quoted, but who, since 1963, began to have a very important diffusion with his first novel, La ciudad de los perros, because he had won an important prize in Spain and had been published in Spain.
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