This Atlas of Latin American Literature is a different book, conceived to contribute to the knowledge of the literature of Latin American countries. The writer Clara Obligado has coordinated a team of more than fifty writers and experts who have written about the Latin American narrators that they consider the most important or that changed their lives. The most famous authors have not been included here. There are no Borges, Cortázar, Fuentes, Rulfo or García Márquez, but fifty other women and men relegated to the background by the greatness of the established authors. For example, Andrés Newman writes about Bolaño, Mariana Enríquez about Silvina Ocampo, Leila Guerriero about Rodolfo Walsh, but they also tell us about Carmen Lyra, Lupe Rumazo, Monterroso, Nicanor Parra, Alejandra Pizarnik, Elena Garro and many more authors.
Here is drawn an itinerary of books, country by country, a cartography that reflects what current Spanish-speaking authors read, what they would recommend, what texts from the old canon survive or should be added, what are the communicating vessels between current affairs and tradition. Passionate and intergenerational, this Atlas represents a change of perspective, a new way of looking at a literature in a boiling state