En tus propias palabras, ¿de qué habla este pasaje? Tu resumen debe tener una extensión mínima de dos párrafos. The Boom is perhaps the best known Latin American literary movement in the world. It was primarily a prose literature movement, with novels as the medium of greatest expression.

As in any artistic movement, there is no precise moment in which the beginning of the movement can be placed. Even so, it can be said with relative safety that if it did not have its beginnings in the 1960s, at least it was in that period that the world began to recognize something emerging from Latin America that had not been seen before.

The Boom originated in Latin America, but it was in Spain that it exploded for the first time with writers such as Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alejo Carpentier and Gabriel García Márquez. It was this success that allowed other writers, who had been relegated, to be finally recognized as well. The most recognized of this group are Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Juan Rulfo.

This genre coincided with the socialist movements in Latin America, in particular the Cuban revolution, which was a symbol of freedom. However, a decade after the socialist experiment failed, as Cuba became more and more authoritarian and totalitarian, the boom reached its highest expression at the same time.

One of the main characteristics of the boom works is the thin line that separates the real from the fictional. The secret was to make that combination seem normal, that the fantastic was not fantastic, but simply something everyday. Hence, they are also known as "magical realist" works. The most representative work of this period is perhaps the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, by the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. The Boom ended in the 1970s.