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| Sunday, April 29, 2007 11:14AM | | | | Alarcon, Arriaga, Franco, Melo | Tags: world voices, Daniel Alarcon, Guillermo Arriaga, Jorge Franco, Francisco Goldman, Patricia Melo
| | | Francisco Goldman, the Guatemalan born author who moderated Friday's "Gritty Realism" panel, proved an expert guide through the shift from magical realism to "gritty realism" in the work of a new generation of Latin American writers.
The four authors, whose work is set in the sometimes violent, sometimes fragile metropolitan landscapes of Lima (Daniel Alarcon), Medellin (Jorge Franco), Mexico City (Guillermo Arriaga), Rio and Sao Paulo (Patricia Melo), provide a twenty-first century alternative to the great Latin American trio of Borges, Garcia Marquez and Vargas-Llosa. Their work reflects the migrations from the countryside to cities, from the interior to the coast, from the south to the north, with accompaniments of violence, dislocation, and cultural chaos. Fertile ground for fiction writers.
Alarcon, who is an associate editor for the Lima monthly Etiqueta... | | | | | |
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