An essay titled for this place recalls the violent past of the now-peaceful Swiss, who “feast … with their mild cheeses and apathetic watches.” The author has “no desire to give shape” to the ideals of Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger in an essay titled for this place that describes an explorer who saw “pigs with their umbilicus on their backs and birds without feet.” It’s not a country, but an essay titled for this region uses the metaphor of a tiger with flames shooting from its eyes. The narrator proclaims, “Whatever is left of that sleepy hometown in [this region] must awaken” in an essay that opens with a villager unaware of “giants in seven-league boots.” The 1982 Nobel Lecture is titled “The Solitude of [this region]” and is by Gabriel García Márquez. For 10 points, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes were part of a 1960s literary movement known as what region’s namesake “Boom?” ■END■
ANSWER: Latin America [or América Latina; accept Latin American Boom or Boom Latinoamericano; accept “The Solitude of Latin America”; prompt on South America or Sudamérica or América del Sur; prompt on Central America; prompt on “Our America” or “Nuestra América” by asking “what region does that refer to?”]
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