"Twenty years after Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel prize, Ronaldo Menéndez, literary critic and lecturer, offers a de-mythified version of his creative world."
"When reciting the many qualities of Gabriel García Márquez's writing, critics invariably include his humor. Unfortunately, when readers have to read works in translation, they often miss much of the richness of the original work, including the humor. However, Gregory Rabassa's English translation of García Márquez still provides many linguistic pleasures, not the least of which is the discovery of symbolic repetitions and of the multilayered references submerged within an apparently simple sentence-particularly those that begin the different chapters. Indeed, this joy of discovery often erupts in outright guffawing when we realize that the devilish author frequently turns the references ironically on our expectations and even, on occasion, deliberately misleads us."
"Presents a contextual analysis of the books 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,' by Gabriel García Márquez and 'The Lesson,' by Toni Cade Bambara. Overview of the story of each book; Subjects discussed in the books; Characters in the books."
This critical essay examines the theme of love in Gabriel García Marquez's work, which the author claims is "depicted as a doom, a demonic possession, a disease that, once contracted, cannot easily be cured."
Salamanca, Spain : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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27(2) : 27-40
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"After locating US writer Jeffrey Eugenides against the background of recent minimalist fiction, this essay evaluates the influence of García Márquez's narratives 'Cien años de soledad' and 'Crónica de una muerte anunciada' on his first novel, 'The Virgin Suicides'. Centered on the novel's magical-realist features, the contrastive analysis contends that 'The Virgin Suicides' revives a distinctive modernist mythical impulse. Based on its literary borrowings, this impulse materializes in the endorsement of ancestral beliefs in a female principle and in the ethical demand to put an end to the gradual annihilation of the planet by post-industrial societies."
"In her article, 'Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon,' Susana Vega-González explores similarities between the novels of García Márquez and Morrison with a special focus on the use of memory and imagination. Based on theoretical models, Vega-González proposes that fictional representations are a means of rewriting history, a particular aspect of literary discourse. The texts under scrutiny constitute true quest stories of characters who search for their family history along their own identity amidst the dangers of capitalism and its excessive desire for progress and class ascent. The break with advocacy of hybridity are some of the features that link Morrison and García Márquez with magical realism, a literary mode that contributes to their rewriting of a history peopled with the ghosts of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism."
"Communities of people have different ways of explaining the world around them and events that occur to them, and these codes for interpreting reality can clash when brought into contact with each other. Latin American writers and scholars have often said that such a clash produces the atmosphere we have come to label magical realist in literature; construing the theory in quite territorial terms, they have claimed that the specific circumstances of Latin America have produced magical realism. In this essay, I explore the use if magical realism in a famous episode from García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad'. The instance of the insomnia plague has fascinated readers and has attracted various interpretations from academics; these have usually been centered around cultural readings. I explore the passage from three distinct perspectives, cultural, historical and literary. García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad' is a work rich in historical and literary sources, and in order to help determine the impact of political and cultural happenings upon his work, I have also referred extensively to García Márquez's recently published memoirs, which have enabled me to make reasoned judgments about the different spheres of influence upon García Márquez's work."
"Ahora que el realismo mágico es un capítulo de la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, 'Cien años de soledad' revela su capacidad inagotada para tolerar y aun proponer nuevas significaciones, y entre ellas merece atención la que cabe relacionar con García Márquez y con su necesidad de dejar testimonio de su infacia, trascurrida en una casa grande y muy triste, con una hermana que comía tierra, una abuela que adivinaba el porvenir, un abuelo que evocaba recuerdos incesantes de una interminable guerra civil y numerosos parientes de nombres iguales que nunca alcanzaron a percibir claramente los límites que seraraban la demencia y la felicidad."
Santiago de Chile, Chile : Editorial Universidad Católica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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30 : p66
Notes:
"El presente trabajo es parte del Seminario de Graduación del Depto. de Castellano en esta Universidad titulado 'Cien años de soledad, una novela mítica'. El seminario fue dirigido por la Prof. Adriana Valdés y en él participaron las siguientes alumnas: Sara Almarza, Inés Araya, Carmen Foxley, M. Elena Rodríguez, M. Isabel Spoerer, Marta Ulfe y Carmen Avaria."