Hey guys,
I found something that I thought was a bit interesting. We all know that "In Cold Blood" is considered to be the "first" non-fiction novel. However, there is this Argentinian writer that wrote "Operación Masacre" (Operation Massacre), which was published in 1957, nine years before "In Cold Blood". Walsh's book is considered a non-fiction novel. So, does that make "In Cold Blood" not the first non-fiction novel? Have we been lied to by another author once again?
Anyway, I could not find a good article about the book in English, so I will resort to wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Masacre
That is incredible. You just figured out a Master's thesis. Once again, the "Latino" world might have been raided by the US for material. I have in mind the Vonnegut novel, Breakfast of Champions. In it, a writer is visited by the character of the novel he is writing, and the character is pissed about how badly his fictional life is going.He leaves the novel, takes the train to the writer's house, and punches him in the nose. Brilliant! And hilarious! Except it is apparently lifted from Unamuno's novel, Niebla. Check it out!
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