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is a historic literary record of a 1967 conversation between Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Held at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru, the dialogue caught both authors at the precise moment their careers were transforming into global phenomena—the early days of the Latin American "Boom". Historical Context

had recently published One Hundred Years of Solitude , which was already becoming a massive commercial success.

Introductory texts by Juan Gabriel Vásquez , who notes the book contains "more valuable lessons on the novelist's craft than any faculty of literature".