Neither Manuel Cofiño nor Miguel Cossio were able to come close to the caliber of the previous period. The nascent police novel still was not producing good results, and beginning novelists were too constrained by the superficial division between the Revolution’s past and present. Toward the end of the decade, the novel form began to recover with the first books written by Manuel Pereira, Antonio Benítez Rojo and Alfredo Antonio Fernández, who turned their attention to the Latin American "boom", at which time another genre was born inside and outside of Cuba—"la memoria novelada" ("fictionalized memory")—with "De Peña Pobre" by Cintio Vitier and "La Habana para un infante difunto" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante.