Passage: The greater attention paid to Spanish American novelists and their international success in the 1960s, a phenomenon that was called the Boom, affected all writers and readers in that period. What mainly brought writers together and focused the attention of the world on Hispanic America was the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, which promised a new age. Periode euforia dapat dianggap ditutup ketika pada tahun 1971 pemerintah Kuba mengeras garis partainya dan penyair Heberto Padilla dipaksa untuk menolak dalam sebuah dokumen publik yang disebut dekaden dan menyimpang pandangannya.
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