Latin America – The Writer’s Journey –

“In 1977 José Donoso wrote a book chronicling The Boom In Spanish American Literature. Over a decade later the effects of that boom are still being felt. Today some of the most exciting voices are coming from South America and, as Greg Price’s interviews eloquently show, the writer there is an active, dynamic and political force.

Gathered over a period of many months, these interviews reflect the style of the individual nations. The books includes the work of Manilo Argueta, Eduardo Galeano, Jorge Amado, Octavio Paz, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Manuel Puig and Mario Vargas Llosa, as well as newer writers such as Ribeiro and Luisa Valenzuela. The interviews create an expressionist collage of a continent and a subjective history. In a continent where the truth has often been fantastic, where horrors, political upheavals and even nature itself are on a heroic scale, it seems that writers, like the Ancient Mariner, are endowed with a strange power of speech.”

Contents:
Uruguay: Mario Benedetti, Eduardo Galeano
Peru: Mario Vargas LLosa
Chile: José Donoso, Isabel Allende
Argentina: Ernesto Sabato, Manuel Puig, Luisa Valenzuela
Paraguay: Augusto Roa Bastos
Brazil: Marcio Souza, Ignacio de Loyola Brandao, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Jorge Amado, Ana Miranda
El Salvador: Manlio Argueta
Guatemala: Luis Alfredo Arango, Augusto Monterroso
Mexico: Elena Poniatowska, Octavio Paz
Cuba: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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