A Companion to Gabriel Garciá Marquez

When Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries defeated the forces of President Batista in Cuba on New Year's Day 1959 the new communist regime on the Caribbean island not only changed the political and social structure of Cuba itself but also encouraged a flowering of new literary output from liberal thinkers and writers throughout the entire Latin American subcontinent. This movement, which started in the 1960s, became known as the “Latin American boom” and included Argentinian Julio Cortazar, Alejo Carpentier of Cuba, Miguel Angel Asturias of Guatemala, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru and the Colombian Gabriel Garciá...