Looking back at the boom. On the `Latin-American Prose’ series The article analyses the Polish boom of Latin American literature that deeply affected the consciousness and sensitivity of writers who made their debut in 1980s and 1990s, as well as their readers. Drawing on Polish papers and magazines from 1945–1970, the article reconstructs the readers’ awareness of Latin American literature before the boom; it also traces the sources available. The presence of Latin American writers on the Polish book market of that time is also studied. The article focuses on the series ‘Latin-American Prose’ (‘Proza Iberoamerykańska’), presenting the goals of its editors, the translators involved and its reception. The most characteristic titles published in the series are discussed and their afterwords are commented upon
