ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three writers who came early in their careers, remaining in Pans over quite different spans of time. By the time Gabriel Garcia Mrquez left for Europe in the summer of 1955, he was just starting to emerge as a writer. He had published his first short novel, Leaf storm, which introduced Macondo as a setting in his fiction, and he had won national prize for a short story. With Alfredo Bryce Echenique's usual self-mocking humor, he tells a story that illustrates continued tradition of Latin American writers in Pans around the mid-1960s: one day, to increase his luck with literature, he went to little hotel run by Madame La Croix, a woman who had done more than anyone for Latin American literature. Since childhood Mario Vargas Llosa had dreamed of going to Paris to become a writer. His first novel, The Time of the Hero, won prestigious Biblioteca Breve prize from Barcelona publisher Seix Barral in 1962.
