This book constitutes a profound analysis of the partial work of a number of selected texts, that point out the socio-historic character in nine hispanic novelists. This series of critical essays about nine representative authors by Manuel Antonio Arango L., is a clear effort to study and deepen the social context of Hispanic literature and integrate it to the history of Hispanic America.
Critical summary of the fourteen novelists that focus their work on violence. Grouping the novels by author, Arango systemizes the analysis of violence in each Colombian province through the writings of García Márquez, Álvaro Cepeda and Manuel Zapata, among others.