As Latin American literature progressively enters into the English curriculum, two writers deserve special commentary for their representative contribution to the literary world. Through their works, the Columbian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the Peruvian author, Mario Vargas Llosa clearly convey the Latin American writer's desire to be modern as they confront sociological problems and integrate a discussion of social, political, and economic issues. Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a classic example of the innovative production generated by the Latin American literary "boom" of the 1960s. The novel best exemplifies Garcia Marquez's ingenious mixture of realism and fantasy and has resulted in the creation of a total fictional universe in which the commonplace takes on an aura of magic and the impossible is made believable. In his numerous novels, Vargas Llosa struggles to capture the complexity inherent in diverse personal, social, and historical worlds. Structural complexities are combined with stories that exemplify Vargas Llosa's view of life; for him it is violent, chaotic, complex, absurd, and indefinable. Both writers as well as a rich literary production by Latin American women writers will no doubt enrich the English Curriculum in the decades to come with innovative courses in translation as American students become more interested in developing a closer bond with Latin American countries and their societies. (An appendix contains available works, some in translation, by 10 contemporary Latin American writers; 18 references are attached.) (KEH)