World literature’s elegant revolutionaries: on the ‘Latin American Boom’
“Latin Amerika Patlaması - Boom Mektupları” (The Boom Letters), brought into Turkish by Süleyman Doğru, invites us into the world of four groundbreaking names in Latin American and Spanish-language literature, through an “introduction” written jointly by the book’s editors, some 207 letters and messages, the writers’ interviews with one another, and the essays, critiques and articles they wrote about their works.
The works, friendships, correspondence and spirit of solidarity of four groundbreaking names in Latin American and Spanish-language literature came to be regarded as a remarkable literary movement, and it was given the name “the Latin American Boom”. To understand the heartfelt grace in the friendship of this foursome, let us listen to the words Julio Cortazar used in 1968 about Marquez and his wife:
“He and Mercedes are both magnificent people; when life puts beings like these in your path, friendship springs up like a fountain.”
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