Example of a 20th Century Novel

At present, the novel is discussed in terms of its thematic possibilities. Ortega y Gasset believes that the novel is over, that all the important issues have already been dealt with with unsurpassed stylistic mastery; he surely was thinking of Dostoevsky, Balzac, Cervantes, Stendhal.
The novel of our days faces a more complex reality than that of other times. The themes remain the same, but now our civilization, due to its constant and enormous crises, gives them a more dramatic tinge. Today's man lives with greater depth, loneliness, death, anguish, injustice and hope.
I think that the current novel is not out of print for the reason that there are no novelists of the stature of the greats of all time.
"How with such discoveries," says Sábato, "with such vast and mysterious domains to explore, with the consequent technical enrichment, with its transcendence? metaphysical and with what it represents for the anguished man of today, who sees in the novel not only his drama, but also seeks his orientation, how can it be supposed that it is a genre in decline? On the contrary, I think that it is the most complex activity of the spirit today, the most comprehensive and most promising in that attempt to investigate and express the tremendous drama that has been our lot to live."

To conclude this point of the novel, I want to mention, as a reader's orientation, a short list of some of the most outstanding Latin American novels of all time:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez.
Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo.
Rajuela, by Julio Cortázar.
Paradiso, by Lezama Lima.
The lost steps, by Alejo Carpentier.
The death of Artemio Cruz, by Carlos Fuentes.