Latin American Novel
The twentieth century Latin American novel opens in the Latin American novel of manners with a novel inherited from the nineteenth century, without any attempt at formal innovation.
From the 40′s begin the first attempts to renew the aesthetic of the novel exploring what is specifically American and while leaving influenced by the avant-garde European movements, especially Surrealism. The world is wide and outside of Ciro Alegria, in showing the peculiar psychology of the Indians expelled from