 Boom literature breaks down the barriers between the fantastical and the mundane, transforming this mixture into a new reality.Of the Boom writers, Gabriel García Márquez is most closely associated with the use of magical realism; indeed, he is credited with bringing it "into vogue" after the publishing of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in 1967.In "The Ends of Literature", Brett Levinson writes that magical realism, "a key aesthetic mode within recent Latin American fiction ... materializes when Latin American history reveals itself as incapable of accounting for its own origin, an incapacity which traditionally ... represents a demand for a myth