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.
Contains fifty-three short stories by Latin American authors from colonial to contemporary times including the works of Juan Rodr?guez Freyle, Ricardo Palma, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Augusto Roa Bastos.