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In 1969, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Pablo Neruda jointly signed that curious literary-gastronomic experiment that is Comiendo en Hungría, a summary of their trip to the Hungarian country, which is also one of the least known texts of both authors. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the unrepeatable exceptionality of this text, which involves a sum of international efforts of socialist sign (including a Spanish and a Hungarian publisher) that, despite its apparent triviality, is of marked interest for the understanding of the relationship of literary forces in the cultural Cold War, at a moment as special as it was, in addition, the boom of Latin American narrative. The conditions of its production, the relationship with previous works of the two authors and the ideological elements present in the text are analyzed. This is intended to contribute to the understanding of the cultural strategies of real socialism in the Hispanic sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of El traductor [The Translator] focuses the relationship between Latin American neoliberalism and literature. Nevertheless, neoliberalism as the main economic and political hegemonic system in the region since 1940's, it has not been studied in connection with literature. In this paper, the History of neoliberalism reforms are considered where it has been criticized their ideological support. At the same time, it is exposed the patterns presented in Benesdra work related to Latin American neoliberalism. The result is an approach of how the author represented the power of neoliberalism in different scopes like social frameworks, labour sphere, emotional scenarios, and political and cultural contexts. Additionally, it is outlining Brenesda's critical view of neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]