The Themes of the Latin American boom Most recurrent were a manifestation of social conflicts, violence, repression or racism,"sweetened"with fantasy (or magical realism) and romanticism. A fusion of the real, the ideal and the fantastic.
This trend emerged in the 1960s, a cultural revolution marked by the urgency of creating a Avant-garde literature That was influential in every corner of the world.
Between the Most representative writers Of this time are: Mario Vargas Llosa with the work The city and the Dogs ; Julio Cortázar with Hopscotch ; Carlos Fuentes with the Death of Artemio Cruz And Gabriel García Márquez with the work One Hundred Years of Solitude .
Most recurring themes of the Latin American boom
1- Social, political, economic and social conflicts
The writers who belong to the Latin American boom created their stories of the reality of their peoples, becoming the voice of an entire continent.
They took social, political, economic and racial conflicts to mix them with the myths and legends of each region, giving writing a touch of fantasy and reverie, hence the magical realism.
2- Politics and social repression
The politics and the form of government of the time marked many of the literary arguments, reflecting authoritarian mandates, Totalitarian Or dictatorial; Massacres of indigenous people and the excessive power of the military and oligarchy.
3- Love and violence
The novels of the literary Boom have a feature in common; Speak of love, violence and politics; Linking the story in a clear way, facing the fear of telling the current social reality.
4- Fantasy
Fantasy was an intrinsic part of this literary trend. To recreate it, the authors took words used in popular slang, creating word games or monologues in a dreamlike way, with flashes of fantasy and fiction.
At the same time, they partially or completely eliminated punctuation, so that the reader makes his own interpretation of the story.
The writers of the Latin American boom managed through their works to extend the sense of reality through fiction, allowing readers to identify with the protagonists and recognize the places to which the work refers.
Literary style of the Latin American boom
The literary style of these writers allows to leave behind the strict rules of literature, developing the originality and creativity, giving a new air to the writing with special characteristics that enchant, catapulting the works to demanding readers around the world.
Some of the most outstanding features were:
- The mixture of different narrative techniques was used in a work such as non-linear time, since it can start the story by the end, giving it back and forth in time.
- Circularity using the same words from the beginning to the end of the story.
- Polyphony by recursively including the different ideas of the participants in the novel, reaching a central point.
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