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There’s a perception that the current age of Latin American literature pales in comparison with the “boom” years of the 1960s and 1970s, the heyday of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio ��ǰ���á������, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, etc.

The bundle of 60-year-old sheets bound together with metal fasteners bearing the inscription “Julio ��ǰ���á������. Historias de Cronopios y de Famas. Paris. 1952” was the basis for the writer’s iconic “Cronopios and Famas” book, published in 1962.

The buyer paid $36,000, plus the auction house’s 17% commission, for the typewritten manuscript containing 46 short stories that make up the heart of what ended up becoming one of ��ǰ���á������’s most famous works.

��ǰ���á������ is one of Latin America’s most celebrated writers, known for several groundbreaking works that included innovative narrative techniques that influenced future generations of writers.

Three other stories were published in magazines before ��ǰ���á������’s death in 1984.