The book by the famous literary and cultural critic, professor, Doctor of Philology Valery Zemskov, founder of the Russian school of humanitarian interdisciplinary Latin American studies, publishes so far the only monographic essay in Russian literary studies on the work of the classic 20th century, Nobel Prize laureate, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Next, the history of culture and literature of the “Other World” (Christopher Columbus’s expression) - Latin America from its origins - “Discovery” and “Conquest”, chronicles of the 16th century, Creole Baroque of the 17th century is recreated. (Juana Ines de la Cruz and others) to Latin American literature of the 19th-21st centuries. – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Jose Hernandez, Jose Marti, Ruben Dario and the famous “new” Latin American novel (Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, etc.). The theoretical chapters explore the specifics of cultural genesis in Latin America, which took place on the basis of intercivilizational interaction, the originality of Latin American cultural creativity, the role in this process of the phenomenon of “holiday”, carnival, and a special type of Latin American creative personality. As a result, it is shown that in Latin America, literature, endowed with a creative innovative role, created the cultural consciousness of a new civilizational and cultural community, its own special world. The book is intended for literary scholars, cultural scholars, historians, philosophers, as well as the general reader.