Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction

Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman , Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude, and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits . Yet these "blockbusters" are only a tiny fraction of the total, rich outpouring of Spanish-language literature from Latin America.