Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fict

This book, written by one of the leading European critics of Spanish American fiction, is a study of internationally renowned writers such as Puig, Vargas Llosa

"The fictionalized explorers and conquistadors represented in this corpus all identify with certain aspects of Amerindian culture - significantly, those element