Ortega discusses the history of Cervantes' Don Quixote and the role of alternative spaces and locations in relation to the novel. He comments on Gabriel García Márquez' view that the climate in the valley is fresh and that people do not sleep in Cartagena to see the dawn of the Caribbean world.
London, UK : Routledge for the Institute of Psycho-Analysis
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Library, University of Illinois
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79(2) : pp. 317-331
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In this paper the author discusses the situation of children handed over to grandparents or to other relatives of the natural parents to be brought up. She notes that such children are faced with the riddle of their own filiation and postulates that this scenario often conceals an oedipal fantasy to the effect that the child concerned is the fruit of an incestuous relationship between a grandparent and the relevant parent. Following the example of Freud, the author adduces literary models for illustration. As with the Oedipus of Sophocles, the author shows how efforts to thwart the workings of fate actually bring about the consummation of the tragedy in the form of incest, which is favoured by the confused oedipal configuration in the families of handed-over children. The main argument is based on the characters and situations of two novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, written at different times in his life. With reference to the psychoanalytic literature on artistic creativity, the author shows the importance of the mid-life crisis in determining how Garcia Marquez came to terms with the fact of having himself been entrusted to grandparents as a child and how this situation is reflected in the works concerned.-- Scopus
London, UK : Routledge for the Institute of Psycho-Analysis
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Library, University of Illinois
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79(2) : 317-331
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"In this paper the author discusses the situation of children handed over to grandparents or to other relatives of the natural parents to be brought up. She notes that such children are faced with the riddle of their own filiation and postulates that this scenario often conceals an oedipal fantasy to the effect that the child concerned is the fruit of an incestuous relationship between a grandparent and the relevant parent. Following the example of Freud, the author adduces literary models for illustration. As with the Oedipus of Sophocles, the author shows how efforts to thwart the workings of fate actually bring about the consummation of the tragedy in the form of incest, which is favoured by the confused oedipal configuration in the families of handed-over children. The main argument is based on the characters and situations of two novels by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, written at different times in his life. With reference to the psychoanalytic literature on artistic creativity, the author shows the importance of the mid-life crisis in determining how Garcia Marquez came to terms with the fact of having himself been entrusted to grandparents as a child and how this situation is reflected in the works concerned." -- Scopus
"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."
San Juan, Puero Rico : Universidad de Puerto Rico Faculdad de Humanidades
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Library, University of Illinois
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31(2) : 59
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"George McMurray, in his 1985 article, commented upon the links between the apocalyptic ending of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and the epiphany of Borges' 'El Aleph.' In this study I trace the origins of this vision in the work of the Colombian writer. As a young journalist, García Márquez wrote over 800 newspaper columns, several of which demonstrate his fascination for these pinnacle moments of vision or knowledge, a momentary glimpse of all time and space, an instant where the human imagination can capture the meaning of the universe. The novelist has repeatedly pointed to his early journalism as the laboratory for his mature fiction, the site that allowed him the opportunity for literary experimentation. It is my contention that the origins of the last Buendia's epiphany can be glimpsed in several columns which represent a leitmotif in García Márquez's early writing."
This article discusses Gabriel García Márquez's interpretation of reality. The author states "Gabriel García Márquez's fiction transports readers to a world between reality and imagination."
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."
Arlington, VA : Society for Latin American Anthropology
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Library, University of Illinois
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12(1) : pp. 254-255
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Aizenberg studies the Latin American narrative and issues reflecting the "boom" era, but focuses on Latin American writings before the 1960's phenomena.