It was during this time that Hemingway and a group of ex-patriot American artists and writers became known as the "lost generation."" ... Hemingway has said before that no person experiences life like the bullfighter (Hemingway, 1966). ... At one time, he had been very promising, but upon being gored in the abdomen, he lost his courage in the ring. ... Paco died, "full of illusions,"" and he did not have time to "lose any of them- (Hemingway 51). ... The bulls, he felt, should be taken out one at a time until they were all dead. ...

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El Boom "was simply the discovery of a new literary language in which to express Latin American reality with, for the first time, complete authenticity1." ... Gabriel Marquez gave an example of the social and economic injustices committed in his home country, Colombia, in his Nobel Prize speech: "There have been five wars and seventeen military coups; there emerged a dictator who is carrying out, in God's name, the first Latin American ethnocide of our time. ... In the beginning, they tended to be heavily influenced by writers such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Proust and Sartre but then many...

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