Munguía Zatarain's analysis is oriented towards the exploration of certain poetic features in some stories by Gabriel García Márquez; included in the collection are Los funerales de la Mamá Grande and La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada.
"In these pages commentary will be made on the following: some millenarian visions of western culture; some characteristics of a potentially millenary society; the Colombia from the beginning of this century; and the Colombia of today. Some Colombian literature texts of the twentieth century will be commented on, and words spoken from some of our more renown cultural figures will be cited. All of this to obtain a possible explanation for the millenary impulse and its relationship with the present Colombia." -Palencia-Roth. Also published in El principio de la esperanza: ensayos-conferencias. Fundación para la Promoción de las Artes. Cali, Colombia: Carvajal Impresores, 1999, pp. 61-66.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
New York, NY : New York University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.|Provides basic information about The Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother; includes details such as genre, keywords, summary, source, publisher, and edition.
Viewed on 29 January, 2008.||"The New York Times described Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) as "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race." This is the most ludicrous gesture of literary hype I have ever encountered... The book is so in love with its own cleverness that it is profoundly unreadable."