The Colombian Novel, 1844-1987Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American "boom." In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams provides an overview of seventeen major authors and more than one hundred works spanning the years 1844 to 1987. After an introductory discussion of Colombian