The boom took the world by storm, but the truth is that as far back as the 1940s several writers actually laid the foundations of the modern Latin American narrative. While professors fight over the exact trajectory, the works of Juan Rulfo from Mexico, Lezama Lima and Carpentier from Cuba, Asturias from Guatemala, Roa Bastos from Paraguay, Borges and Sabato from Argentina, and Onetti from Uruguay make up the classic modernist canon of Latin American literature.
