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Title:
The censorship files : Latin American writers and Franco's Spain / Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola.
Author:
Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro.
Publication Information:
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Call Number:
PQ7082.N7 H47 2007
Abstract:
"Drawing on extensive research in the Spanish National Archive, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola examines the role played by the censorship apparatus of Franco's Spain in bringing about the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. He reveals the negotiations and behind-the-scenes maneuvering among those involved in the Spanish publishing industry. Converging interests made strange bedfellows of the often left-wing authors and the staid officials appointed to stand guard over Francoist morality and to defend the supposed purity of Castilian Spanish. Between these two uneasily allied groups circulated larger-than-life real-world characters like the Barcelona publisher Carlos Barral and the all-powerful literary agent Carmen Balcells.

The author details the fascinating story of how novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Manuel Puig achieved publication in Spain, and in doing so reached a worldwide market."--Jacket.
ISBN:
9780791469859

9780791469866
Series:
SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
Physical Description:
xxx, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Publishing matters : the boom and its players -- The writer in the barracks : Mario Vargas Llosa facing censorship -- Cuban nights falling : the revolutionary silences of Guillermo Cabrera Infante -- From Melqúiades to Vernet : How Gabriel García Márquez escaped Spanish censorship -- Betrayed by censorship : Manuel Puig declassified.
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