... Paz, set the precedent for the writers of the "Boom."7 The novels 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 held the best jobs and welded political power. The revolutionary spirit of discontent also may have driven it, which naturall...

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