The censorship files : Latin American writers and Franco's Spain / Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola.
"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 man...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxx, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0791469859 9780791469859 0791469867 9780791469866 |