| William Faulkner |
The masters who influenced the Latin American Boom
Vargas Llosa and García Márquez took cues from Faulkner
Edmundo Paz Soldán
November 21, 2012
For some time now I have been planning to give a course on William Faulkner's influence on the on the so-called Boom in Latin American writing that began in the 1960s. The course would begin with Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, who said that this American writer was the first novelist he read with pencil and paper at hand, trying to "rationally" reconstruct the architecture of his novels, see the workings of the complex play of chronology and point of view.