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The so-called "Latin American boom", which between the 60s and 90s of the last century was a point of reference for the culture of this region, "no longer exists", as the writers of several Latin American countries that participated in the XXXI edition of the Black Week of Gijón (Spain)
The Mexican Fritz Glockner the Argentine Enzo Maqueira the Cuban William Navarrete and the Peruvian Jorge Eduardo Benavides yesterday presented their latest works in this literary event in which more than 160 authors from 15 countries will speak about a crime novel but also science fiction, fantasy, historical novel, poetry or comic strip.
According to the four authors, the loss of prestige of political commitment in the arts and borders in the "monopoly" final push to a movement
Currently Ibero-American literature is characterized by a diversity of genres and narrative styles that have nothing to do with his glorious past said Benavides, who in his latest novel, "The Murder of Laura Olivo", wanted to pay homage to this cultural phenomenon.
Enzo Maqueria, who presents the novel "Do it yourself" at the Gijón event, badured that "the boom ceased to exist", but from its ashes it can be reborn "A new literature" goes along with the return of ideologies and the feminist revolution.
Fritz Glockner admits that in Mexico the reality is so cruel that she has supplanted the dark romance, because people no longer want to read the horrific facts Moreover, the concentration of publishers has led to a a "malignant" phenomenon, which means that local authors are not published in Europe and Europe. The eos are not published in America
These "borders" did not exist in the 60s and 70s, when the "boom" of which were the most recognized representatives is the Argentine Julio Cortázar and the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez [19659015] William Navarrete considered that this phenomenon that originated in Havana with the Castro revolution existed "outside the gates" of the island, because no Cuban writer did not participate.
As he stated, the regime was responsible for keeping it controlled not to publish the works of those authors who did not agree with Castroism, as in the case of Jorge Luis Borges.
Another issue that hampers the exchange of works on both sides of the Atlantic is economic because the types exchange rates between the currencies of the countries of the region and the l & # 39; Euro make it virtually impossible to buy books published in Spain.
The same publisher told Glockner.
The Mexican novelist says that he repeatedly hit the wall of "no" agents. literary and editorial directors to whom he proposed to publish or import works by "good authors" who had achieved commercial success abroad.
Glockner presented in the Black Week "The Red Book of Puebla", which collects the Maqueira took the novel "Do yourself", the fourth of its production and the first genre in which tells a crime by domestic disputes.
For his part, in "Let Spain die", Navarrete focuses on the discovery of clues about the Cuban origins of Cubans, convinced that behind every Cuban there is a Spaniard and, of each Spaniard, a Cuban.
TAKING NOTE
What was the "Latin American boom"?
This movement was a literary phenomenon that arose between the 1960s and 1970s, which was generated when all the work of a group of Latin American novelists was distributed in Europe and around the world. The main authors involved were: Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia, Julio Cortázar of Argentina, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru and Carlos Fuentes de México
The literary proposal of these writers was characterized by the questioning of established conventions of Latin American literature. In addition, because of the social climate of Latin America in the 1960s, it was also very political.
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