It is impossible to represent a region. recognizes him Clara Bound however, he dared to collect in a few pages a handful of Latin American authors who exemplify the qualities of contemporary letters from the region. in its subtitle Atlas of Latin American LiteraturePublished by the Nordic publisher, the key lies: unstable architecture. “Thing It is an experimental book. It is a structure that can fall at any moment and we are very aware of this.. Moreover, I am speaking in the plural, because I decided to include many eyes to make an atlas of intersecting eyes”, explains the Argentine writer, who has lived in Madrid since 1976, who brought together 47 critics to highlight the literary production that is applicable to the few. for decades in the shadow boom”
For more than half a century, Latin American law has been determined by several university professors. Spanish historian and literary critic Joseph Charles Mainer published in 1967 Atlas of 20th Century Latin American Literature starting with (Ediciones Jover) Ruben Dario and resulted in the nascent phenomenon boom, headed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. They were the authors, underlined in the preface to his book by a Zaragoza scholar, whose works were “characterized by a tendency to self-analysis as a result of the marginalization of the intellectual, concern for their own original linguistic tools, simultaneity, an Americanist temptation, and another Europe, and a combination of literature and politics.”
These formal features were created, first of all, to guide experts. The atlas, coordinated by Clara Obligado, offers an “alternative” and subjective cartography for every reader.. “So: more of a playful book. Passionate, yes. Intergenerational. Done from another perspective, boom it is, but it isn’t. It is in the tutorial of many, but we do not cover it here, as it has been widely reviewed. There are also many women considered here. However, for this very reason, we assumed that it was something wrong, incomplete and unfair”, says the author. water library (Foam Pages).
other canon
There are 50 selected authors, Antonio DiBenedetto a Elizabeth Beautifulstop by Silvina Okampo, Manuel Puig, Adela Zamudio, Clarice Lispector, Gabriela Mistral, Fernando Molano, Virgilio Pinera, Elena Garro, Jorge Ibarguengoitia, Julio Ramon Ribeyro’s photo. HE Mario Levrero. “Anyone can make a very mestizo literature that is not national in the closed sense, but deals with exiles, violence, travel and even the infiltration of the internet. And among all, real pope Roberto Bolano”, adds Clara Obligado. Every author on the list has been taken care of by many others who have not stopped being on the novelty desks of bookstores in recent years, for example: Mariana Enriquez, Edmundo Paz From Left, Liliana Colanzi, Julio Prieto, Hector Abad Faciolince, Eduardo Becerra, Monica Ojeda, help Venice, Antonio Ortuno, Marcelo Lujan HE Fernanda Triassic.
“I told some of them to choose their writers, and I respected their decision and commissioned others directly. There had to be some beams to support the house. Because without it, the roof collapses. Bolano or Cabrera Babyfor example, these beams. What leyla warrior will take care Rodolfo Walsh it made sense. Or she came alone, as Mariana Enríquez wrote about Silvina Ocampo. Or I knew that Antonio Ortuño loved Ibargüengoitia, so I asked him for the text. In the end, everything happened by itself”, explains the coordinator of the volume, which took three years to make and also contains illustrations by the Argentine artist. agustin comottowho does not limit himself to portraits. “Every writer has a commitment to his symbolic space and not so much to his figures. It’s a storybook and I had to write graphic stories, that was the benchmark. “I used red, white and black because I thought the book handled these tones well,” the Argentine cartoonist says.
Group the authors away from the group’s long shadow. boom It is an exercise that intensifies, at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, when several generations of writers got together with the intent to “kill the father” and claim they were doing something other than magical realism. names like McOndoin Chile, This Crunchin Mexico it Nocilla Generation, in Spain. “Well, to oppose is to be alike. When someone is so against their father, it ends up being the same. Y These mostly male groups also sought to canonise. They tried, they were funny, they were funny but maybe their name was just another marketing tag to sell, just like boomor I don’t know” synthesizes Clara Obligado, who wanted to include it in her illustrated atlas. Horace Quiroga Ah Alfonsina Storni: “Do they deserve to be? Certainly. They and others. But we didn’t want to make a phone book either.”