The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of
values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values
versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment
to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of
literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic
avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and
envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. "The Decline and
Fall of the Lettered City" charts the conflicting universals of
this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard.
This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the
great cultural revolution of the seventies and eighties, a
revolution to which the Cold War indirectly contributed. In the
eighties, civil war and military rule, together with the rapid
development of mass culture and communication empires, changed the
political and cultural map.
A long-awaited work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read
throughout the world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone
hoping to understand Latin American literature and society. Jean
Franco guides the reader across minefields of cultural debate and
histories of highly polarized struggle. Focusing on literary texts
by Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Roa Bastos, and Juan Carlos
Onetti, conducting us through this contested history with the
authority of an eyewitness, Franco gives us an engaging overview as
involving as it is moving.
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