 With the success of the Boom, the work of a previous generation of writers gained access to a new and expanded public.These precursors include Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Arturo Uslar Pietri and Alejo Carpentier, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Juan Rulfo.While most critics agree that the Boom started some time in the 1960s, there is some disagreement as to which work should be considered the first Boom novel.