Boom writers combined formal experimentation with political will in their choice of themes.
Their works sought to reflect the convulsive situation in Latin America in those years. According to literary critic Gerald Martin, “it is no exaggeration to say that the south of the continent was known for two things above all others in the 1960s; these were, first, the Cuban Revolution and its impact on both Latin America and the Third World in general; and second, the rise of Latin American literature, whose rise and fall coincided with the rise and fall of liberal perceptions of Cuba between 1959 and 1971.”
