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Story of a Quest

Summary/Abstract: The text presents and reviews the book Boom i McOndo. Wokół nowej prozyhispanoamerykańskiej (Boom and McOndo. Around the new Hispano-Americannarrative) by Marcin Sarna. The book provides a contextual look at the new narrative in Spanish written in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century. It discusses the Boom and the McOndo phenomena in their different contexts: social, historical and political. The author looks for parallels between the two phenomena. In addition, the book takes up the matter of the modern mechanisms that affect the flow and promotion of cultural goods, the role of mediators, as well as the formation of the cultural field and the symbolic management of capital.

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