Abstract: Since the 1960s, the French novel has become simply one model among several in Latin America. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa continue to use it as a reference point. Opposed to the psychological novel as well as the formalism of the Nouveau Roman, the former makes ideological choices that show a high level of awareness of the other genres that influence the novel. Vargas Llosa closely studied the procedures used by Hugo and Flaubert, prioritizing the expression of his subjectivity above sociohistorical considerations.
