The censorship files : Latin American writers and Franco's Spain / Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro.

Contributor:

Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--20th century--Publishing--Spain.

Spanish American fiction.

Censorship--Spain--History--20th century.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

The Censorship Files

Acknowledgments

Publishing Matters

The Writer in the Barracks

Cuban Nights Falling

From Melquíades to Vernet

Betrayed by Censorship

Legends of the Boom

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480540

0791480542

9781429471312

142947131X

OCLC:

137550341