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- A term applied to the work of certain twentieth-century Latin American novelists, in particular the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende of Chile, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges and Alejo Carpentier of Cuba. The common characteristic, found for example in García Márquez's Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), is the realistic treatment of unrealistic or fantasy situations.
- Generación del 98
- A group of Spanish literary figures who wrote in response to the trauma caused to Spain by the loss in 1898 of its last colonies, Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Faced with the end of Spain's imperial role, poets, novelists and essayists turned their attention to Spain itself, its landscapes, its people, its linguistic and cultural heritage. The best known members of the group are Antonio Machado, Miguel de Unamuno, Pío Baroja, Jacinto Benavente, Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Azorín.