After the so-called boom of the latin american narrative, that counts with acknowledged authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Alejo Carpentier, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes e Isabel Allende, it''s worthwile looking at the literal doings of a new generation of post-magic realism-authors. Those new perspectives and literary searches are closer to urban life and its tensions, conflicts that do not come from chaotic growth, marginality, the ghetto, cronic disemployment, delinquency, absolute power and so on.
We can now for example take Mario Vargas Llosa''s book La fiesta del Chivo, which relates about the peripheries and contradictions of those who pretend to overtrow the culture of corruption and violence of dictator Leonidas Trujillo. In The paradise at the next corner Vargas Llosa takes again themes like the travel, prisonship and the contradictions of the so-named geniuses of the arts. The work of Rita Indiana Hernandez, who puts herself strongly against the arrival of nacionalism in Latin america. Then there are the new literal values show by Jose Donoso, Alfredo Bryce Echenique with La Amigdalitis de Tarzan and his tale Guia triste de Paris, or Luis Rafael Sanchez with El mismo puig. They are followed by Luis Sepulveda, Roberto Bolaño, Carmen Bolullosa, Dianela Eltit, Mayra Montero, Marcelo Serrano, Carlos Monsavais, guadalupe Loaeza. Carlos Monsavais relates to the changes that have been taking place in Latin America during the end of the last century, and Guadalupe Loaeza reveals the images of ''la jefa Mejicana'' en Simplemente Martita.
We love the mysteries in the works of Leonardo Padura Fuejntes or in those of Zoe Valdes, we meditate about the great narrators of the history of filosophy.
We are captured by works such as La piel del cielo of Elena Poniatowska, who won the Alfaguara de novela Price in 2001. In 2002 it was Tomas Eloy Martinez who won, with El vuelo de la Reina.
But the universe of new latin american literary productions is still wider and more varied. There is A. Alberto Fuguet, Eduardo Berti, Federico Andahazi, and Ena Lucia Porteloi, who all belong to that same generation. No doubt we percieve a reactivation or reknowing of latin american literature, with new voices, new scenes, that breathe the aspirations and suffering of its characters. It''s an urban world without faces, chaotic, inforseeable, the language of the authors is also an infinite search. The reflexions and storytellers of these new literary worlds take as referees the deeply rooted economic and social turning wheels, with its repercussions in culture and our visions upon the world. In this light we should not forget to mention the work of Edmundo Paz, in which his particular stories teach us new literary techniques. Amongst all these authors, will there be some that will not make it to the next round? Who knows, but we''re certain that there is now a good literary canal that is here to stay and continue develop latina american literature breaking with imitating or repeating models that have not awoken from their siesta after the latin american boom in literature and its influences in global literature. Let''s continue reading those new authors!.