"Some of the most interesting and never realized proposals of literary historiography in the last fifty years gain validity when they propose to assume the history of literature as provocation, where they establish a real dialogue of periods, where they revise, question and destroy the traditional canons. This means realizing new cuts, selections, and proposals to approach Colombian literature from a historical proposal that relies on a fruitful discussion by the academic community." Pöpel analyzes the transition of magical realism from its beginnings by García Márquez, as a Colombian novel of violence to its transitions in the latter part of the century as a narrative of drug trafficking and new violence.