Abstract
In a reappraisal of modem Latin American fiction Angel Flores stated during a lecture given at the 1954 MLA meeting that unfortunately he felt compelled to agree with Dudley Fitts' opinion that recent Spanish American prose had shown nothing but ineptitude, uncertainty and tedium, with the exception of the works produced by two writers: Jorge Luis Borges and Eduardo Mallea.1 For Flores, these two Argentine intellectuals have been the nucleus of a group of prose writers that gave impetus to what he terms: magical realism. Flores seems to admire these new realists because of their breaking away from the general trend of Latin American prose. He pays tribute to their efforts when stating: Their mathematical precision and perspicacity may account for their strong aversion to all flabbiness, either stylistic or emotional.2
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