... of the "Boom" tend to have complex narrative structures, linguistic experimentation, and a rejection of typical, moral upper middle class values and social traditions. Unlike the current European trend, Latin American books were not written primarily to attack the very concept of the novel. The rejection of the usual values may be a reaction to the elite "whites" of South America, who typically ... in Latin American literature: good vs. evil, nature vs. urban progress, and civilization vs. barbarism. These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Ga...

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