This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

• Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts.
  
• Introduces debates about how to read this literature.
  
• Combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts.
  
• Discusses authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende.
  
• Covers nation-building narratives, 'modernismo', the New Novel, the Boom, the...

This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

• Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts.
  
• Introduces debates about how to read this literature.
  
• Combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts.
  
• Discusses authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende.
  
• Covers nation-building narratives, 'modernismo', the New Novel, the Boom, the...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Latin America's most internationally famous and successful author, and a winner of the Nobel Prize. His oeuvre of great modern novels includes One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His name has become closely associated with Magical Realism, a phenomenon that has been immensely influential in world literature. This Companion includes new and probing readings of all of Garcia Marquez's works, by leading international specialists. His life in Colombia, the context of Latin American history and culture, key themes in his works and their critical...