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

• Autore: Herrero-Olaizola Alejandro
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 098/.120946
• Soggetto topico: Spanish American fiction - 20th century - Publishing - Spain; Censorship - Spain - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: FrancoFrancisco <1892-1975.>
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The censorship files
• ISBN: 9780791480540; 0791480542; 9781429471312; 142947131X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975173203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.