... , 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 ... naturally is critical of the status quo. Most importantly, with the emergence of the "Boom" writers of the 60s to the early 80s, three ... . barbarism. Similar themes in Joseph Conrad's ...

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