The “Boom” and the Bang: One Hundred Years of Solitude and Forty Years of Mingling, or, From “The Faulknerian Revolution” to the Lost Generation

Historical literary movements and moments aside, the mere acknowledgement of the fact that Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez turned eighty last year has probably induced a considerable mass of Weltliteratur-minded individuals to come to terms one more time with the magical realism of melancholy.