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Carlos Fuentes's Readings on Literary Traditions: From the New to the Great Latin American Novel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Anadeli Bencomo
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Carlos Fuentes, like many other writers of the Boom, discussed his peers' unprecedented renovation of Latin American narrative forms—specifically, the novel (e.g., Donoso; Vargas Llosa). In La nueva novela hispanoamericana (1969; “The New Spanish American Novel”), Fuentes reviews the most influential novels of the 1960s after presenting some of the founders of the literary modernity that preceded the Boom: Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Alejo Carpentier. Fuentes focuses on the Boom's protagonists—Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, and Julio Cortázar—to highlight his ideas about the groundbreaking contributions of these novels.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 128 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 698 - 701
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Copyright © 2013 by The Modern Language Association of America

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