Latin American literature
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Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of Latin America. Latin A
Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most renowned Latin American writers
Sculpture of Alfonso Reyes writer of influential pieces of Mexican surrealism.
Octavio Paz helped to define modern poetry and the Mexican personality.
Peruvian poet César Vallejo, considered by Thomas Merton "the greatest universal poet since Dante"
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works,
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…works Cake-Walk: El Baile de Moda. Many of his works were published in La Revista Moderna de Mexico, a modernist magazine of the time. The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges invented what was almost a new genre, the philosophical short story, and would go on to become one of the most influential of all Latin American writers…
Borges in 1951
Borges in 1921
Adolfo Bioy Casares, Victoria Ocampo and Borges in 1935
Borges in the 1940s