Latin American Literary Boom
When i took college Spanish in the early 1970s, we read anthologies of short stories in Spanish. I think some of the writers were surrealists. I can't find reference to these authors and need help. I am not referring to Borges or Lorca, by the way. Google Search That sounds like you were exposed to a fascinating period of literature! The early 1970s was the peak of the Latin American Literary Boom, a movement that often incorporated elements of the fantastic, the absurd, and the dreamlike—often categorized as Magical Realism or influenced by Surrealism—in short story collections that were highly popular in college courses. Since you've excluded Jorge Luis Borges and Federico GarcÃa Lorca, here are some of the most likely candidates for "surrealist" or fantastic Spanish-language short story writers you might have read in a college anthology during that time: Key Latin American "Boom" Short Story Writers (1960s-1970s) The following writers, mainly from Latin ...
