The modern Latin American novel / Williams, Raymond L

Provides an overview of modern Latin American novels and their critical reception. Includes a chronology listing publication dates of major novels, birth and death dates of novelists, dates of significant events, and primary and secondary source bibliographies.

Reviews modernist fiction in Latin America since the 1940s, focusing on the twelve-year period after 1945; discusses the modernist Boom, looking at the novelistic production that appeared from 1958 to 1967; examines the most innovative fiction to appear in the region since 1968.