Great post World War II writers

I would almost think that Latin American writers don't really have an identity in their nation, but as Latin Americans. Or maybe, at least until the end of the Cold War, as "Third World" writers. Unless they took refuge in nativism, most third worldlist writers in fact didn't care very much for their national boundaries (mostly because many Third World countries were not nations at all). Granted, I am not all too familiar with Latin American literature, but it makes sense to me.
 
Forostar said:
Still I am interested if Onhell could/would mention a Mexican, Loose Cannon a Canadian, and Shadow a Swede?
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Carlos Fuentes is Mexican. I have not read his "classic," but he is also very prolific and still active. I read "Aura" in school. A short novel written in second person (just like the dream killing thread). Very surreal and leaves you with a WTF moment at the end.

Marquez is Colombian and again, if you have never heard of 100 years of Solitude you have been living under a rock. He also wrote Chronicle of an announced death, Castaway (the true story of a Colombian shipwreck and the sole survivor's story.), Love in Times of Cholera and The Coronal has No One to Write Him.

Octavio Paz is Mexican and practically a national treasure. I don't like poetry so I have never read his stuff. However he won several awards, among them, The Nobel Prize for Literature.

That movement is mostly known for the use of Magical Realism (Think Pan's Labyrinth or Like Water for Chocolate.) For more on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_Boom
 
Thanks :)

Man, that Marquez made some awesome sounding titles. Castaway sounds very intriguing. I'll remember that one.
 
It's my favorite of his :) I'm afraid to say anything about it in fear of spoiling it. As for the titles... yeah Latin American authors are very dramatic and fatalistic... a trademark lol
 
Also worth mentioning: Fuentes and Paz wrote for the elite, rich and educated class. Fuentes constantly throws French phrases and even paragraphs in his novels. That always annoyed me, because he wouldn't explain the phrase in Spanish and I can't read French. He spent many years in Switzerland for his schooling where he won several short story contests. I sat next to an old classmate of his on a plane years ago. This old man was awesome. He noticed I was reading Fuentes and he began to tell me about their years in Switzerland. He said his background was in etimology, Fuentes... writing. He told me Fuentes would often win 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the contests as he would enter several stories under pseudonyms lol.

Marquez, Cortazar and Vargas Llosa (of The City and the Dogs fame) are more popular lit authors, but still gained international fame.
 
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