This is an article in the book Expresiones liminales en la narrativa latinoamericana del siglo XX. Estrategias postmodernas y postcoloniales, edited by Alfonso de Toro and René Ceballos. This article itself discusses García Márquez's representation of Simón Bolívar in his book, El general en su laberinto (1989).
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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Library, University of Illinois
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In this interview with Silvia Lemus, Gabriel García Márquez discusses his life and work from a highly personal stand point. This is an episode of the television program "Tratos y retratos."
Fernández writes, “Transcurridos cuatro décadas desde su aparición, ‘Cien años de soledad’ conserva intacta la magia de ese mundo centrado en Macondo. Su éxito extraordinario guarda relación sin duda con la visión maravillosa y maravillada de la realidad y de la historia de América Latina que proponía y aún propone”.
This entire issue is dedicated to Gabriel García Márquez. It includes articles from the following authors: Teodosio Fernández, Lorena E. Roses, Ana Gallego Cuñas, Alvaro Salvador, Julio Ortega, José Miguel Oviedo, Anibal González, Jacques Joset, José Manuel Camacho, Angel Esteban and Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda. All of the articles are included in this bibliography.
Rodero states: "The fantastic represents a constant in Latin American narrative of the 20th Century. This article analyzes the presence and evolution of this narrative mode in Latin American literature through the study of four short stories, each representing a different literary trend: the ‘modernismo’ of marvelous tone (‘El ángel caído,’ Amado Nervo), the demystifying magical realism (‘Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes,’ Gabriel García Márquez), the transgressive post-boom (‘El ángel caído,’ Cristina Peri Rossi), and the feminist post-modernism (‘Moraleja para ángeles,’ Sonia González Valdenegro). The main theories on the fantastic are reviewed and used in the particular analysis of the short stories: from the classic distinction established by Todorov between the marvelous, the uncanny, and the fantastic to the most recent critical studies (Lucie Armitt, Remo Ceserani, etc.), including other decisive and essential contributions such as those by Rosemary Jackson and Irène Bessière."
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Detwiler says of Crónica de una muerte anunciada, "a short narrative by perhaps the most famous of the Boom writers, García Márquez's 1981 work dismantles the steps involved in producing an eyewitness account of a past event...[and] equates the production of eyewitness testimony with the act of making fiction."