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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

CARMEN MACHI TO PLAY MARIO VARGAS LLOSA & GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ' LITERARY AGENT IN BOOM AGENCY TV SERIES

  BOOM AGENCY SERIES  
ON LLOSA'S & GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ' LITERARY AGENT
As Variety reports, Carmen Machi has been set as the lead in BOOM AGENCY TV series which will chart the life of Carmen Balcells who was prime architect of the Latin American Boom and the literary agent and of
Carmen Machi will lead the new show
Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. A co production between Chile and Spain, it will follow a legend in literary circles, Balcells, who is relatively unknown to the general public. She established the Carmen Balcells Literary Agency in 1956 at the age of 25 in a fusty Spain still under the arcane rule of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship but rocked by tourism, then the Beatles and Cuba’s Revolution. She had everything against her. She was born in a village, rather than into Barcelona’s elite. She championed Latin American writers when Barcelona looked up to France. Balcells’ luck was to champion writers who were revolutionizing Latin American literature, abandoning its stolid social realism for a belated but thorough going modernism! The worldwide fame of Gabriel García Márquez is based on the flamboyant “magical realism” of “100 Years of Solitude.” But it also owed much to the commercial aggression of Balcells, which, for example, allowed a young Vargas Llosa to dedicate himself totally to writing. The story will also deal with her worst nightmare, the rupture of the deep friendship between her star writers, Llosa and Marquez, whose rift broke the back of the Boom.

6 comments:

  1. Have watched a couple of Spanish tv series before, wasn't really impressed.

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    1. I do not really feel their culture either, nor history, but I did watch a number of their historical shows throughout the years.

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  2. I really don't know anything about these people but I'm sure that the people who do know something about them will find this interesting.

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    1. OMG they are like in top twenty most famous writers in the world ever.

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  3. While I'm not sure if this one is for me, I do love a good story about an underdog. Even with the odds stacked against her, in a time where women should be seen and not heard, she still made some amazing power moves.

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    1. She did also change publishing in Spain, but I don't know if it was for good or bad.

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