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- The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: State University of New York Press
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 García Márquez, and Manuel Puig achieved publication in Spain, and in doing so reached a worldwide market. This colorful account underpins a compelling claim that even the most innovative and aesthetically challenging literature has its roots in the economics of the book trade, as well as the institutions of government and the exigencies of everyday politics and ideology.
Table of Contents
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- The Censorship Files
- p. iii
- Illustrations
- p. ix
- Preface: The Censorship Files
- pp. xi-xxvii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxix-xxx
- 1. THE NEW RULES OF CENSORSHIP
- pp. 9-12
- 2. THE NEW SEIX BARRAL
- pp. 13-22
- 3. BITCHING ABOUT THE BOOM
- pp. 22-36
- 4. From Melqu
- pp. 109-117
- 1. WISE AND UNWISE CATALANS
- pp. 117-125
- 2. GARCIA MÁRQUEZ AND HIS “FAMILIAR” CENSORS
- pp. 125-135
- 3. A CITIZEN CENSOR
- pp. 135-140
- 1. BETRAYED BY THE MARKETPLACE
- pp. 146-154
- 2. BETRAYED BY AUNT CLARA
- pp. 155-165
- Works Cited
- pp. 203-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791480540
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
137550341
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No