 Miguel Ángel Asturias 's El Señor Presidente ( written in 1933 , but not published until 1946 ) is , in the opinion of critic Gerald Martin , " the first real dictator novel " . Other literary treatments of the dictator figure followed , such as Jorge Zalamea 's El Gran Burundún Burundá ha muerto , but the genre did not gain impetus until it was reinvented in the political climate of the cold war , through the Latin American Boom . 
