Originally published in 1996, the “Crack Manifesto” marked the official beginning of the “Crack group,” a collective of five Mexican writers dedicated to breaking with the pervading Latin American tradition of Magical Realism in favor of a return to
the complexity of plot and style found in the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. At times argumentative, erudite, funny, and provocative, the “Crack Manifesto” is an important document that examines the possibilities of fiction, while laying the groundwork for a new literary movement.
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