The task of rebuilding the history of the HispanoAmerican literature remains a story for academics, despite the large number of manuals and counts that already exist. This test reviews some of the problems that have hindered a more or less satisfactory development in this field. It recognises the lack of critical studies of essential works and the lack of readings with new analytical perspectives based on aesthetics. It is proposed to start by re-establishing the nexus of the novelty with the old, popular, oral traditions that have marked the profile of novel writing, and is exemplified by the review of two diamonds, but in which the traces of the grotesca aesthetics are clearly seen in their configuration: 100 years of loneliness of García Márquez and Carlos Droguett’s dog.