Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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A Novel About Latin American Literature
i wasn't really thinking about literature as something i wanted to study. I was primarily a consumer of literature and like learning new languages so i can read literary texts in the original language. And that certainly was a book that that was really shocked by it because he tells us the tragic story of the senior member of the army, of the columbian army, waiting for decades to receive his pension. So and theni o just i did my my ar my b a in history, locally, in the universe of lalaguna. And then i finished my my b a.
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