is the least known (in the USA) of the Holy Trinity of 20th Century Latinamerican narrators, along with Borges and Rulfo.

One of the greatest Argentine poets

is one of the major writers of the generation that came after the so called Latinamerican Boom (Garcia Marquez, Cortazar, Vargas Llosa, etc.) under which influence, unfortunately, we are still reading

Stealing John Updike's judgement of Nabokov, I'd say that Rulfo "Writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically."

Forget Lorca, forget Neruda and the rest.

Do you like complots? Forget the Da Vinci Code. This is the real thing.

If you think he's a "magic realist", then Dante, Homer, Swift and Conrad were too. And he has plenty of "realistic" stories. Read them all.

(there are in more than one volume, I'm giving you only one). As good (sometimes better) as his fiction, and equally perfectly written

A classic, very well written 19th century novel, based on true events.

probably not the genious magazines want him to be (now that he's dead). But still worth checking. Other novels: Chile by Night, The Savage Detectives

Puig's first novel. A written stream of consciousness kind of novel., a little kid in a small town and tries to reconciliate the world of the silver screen with the one that's going on much closer

Latin American poetry. An introduction.

Mixed writers. Very interesting reading