Dos Soledades Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Mario Va... Link

had just secured the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos Award for his novel The Green House .

The conversation explores what Vargas Llosa describes as a "conscious obsession with reality". Dos Soledades Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Mario Va...

is a historic literary record of a 1967 conversation between Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Held at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru, the dialogue caught both authors at the precise moment their careers were transforming into global phenomena—the early days of the Latin American "Boom". Historical Context had just secured the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos Award

They discuss the novelist’s function in Latin American society, which was then plagued by political and social contradictions. Held at the National University of Engineering in

Introductory texts by Juan Gabriel Vásquez , who notes the book contains "more valuable lessons on the novelist's craft than any faculty of literature".

had recently published One Hundred Years of Solitude , which was already becoming a massive commercial success.