Another variation is articulated by Randolph D. Pope: "The story of the Boom could start chronologically with Miguel Ángel Asturias's El Señor Presidente (published in 1946, but started in 1922).
The major representatives of the Boom claimed that they were an "orphan" literary generation, without a "Latin American "father" of influence; however, they owe much of their stylistic innovation to the Vanguardists [REF].