Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Contains a biography, a few essays by García Márquez himself, and an essay on magical realism by Gerald Martin.
Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile : Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso
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Library, University of Illinois
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5 : 93p.
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The authors present myth as an effective instrument for giving perfection, sense and correctness to chaos, and they also humorize the brutal and tragic of a world, decaying without remedy.
Hildensheim, Zürich, and New York : Georg Olms Verlag
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Library, University of Illinois
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297p.
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Includes the following relevant articles: "¿Descolonización de la historia? El caso de la novela histórica en la región norteandina" by Brigitte König pp. 51-72; and "¿Descolonización de la historia? El caso de la historiografía en la región norteandina" by Hans-Joachim König pp. 27-49.
Zapata reminisces Gabriel García Márquez's life and works with a candid narrative of thirty-three years since he has been introduced to Marquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is illustrated with caricatures by Pancho, Zapata, Ras, and Ugo as well as pictures of distinctive facets of Márquez's life and covers of several of his works. There is also a drawing of "Remedios" done by Gabriel García Márquez himself.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
México DF, México : Universidad Veracruzana Fondo de Cultura Económica
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Library, University of Illinois
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34, 42, 45, 48-49, 52-53, 56-57, 59-62, 65, 9
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Menton rereads every book, article, review, notes and theses written since his first stay in Mexico in 1948-49 until the present for the purpose of finding the theoretical basis of his approaches to literature. His approaches to literature can be summed up in two words: "scrutiny" and "walking." Once he began this task, Menton realized that intrinsic reading is not always enough because it could not be done in a void. As much as a reader analyzes the form of a work with all the variety of technical resources, one has to place it into its sociopolitical context as well as the literary context.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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194, back cover
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"Under the editorial guidance of Jack Zipes, sixty-seven expert contributors from around the world have come together in this beautifully illustrated A-Z Companion to combine their insight and expertise to explore all aspects of the Western fairy-tale tradition. The result is a unique synthesis of knowledge, from Alice in Wonderland to Tom Thumb, from Gabriel García Márquez (p.194) to Louisa May Alcott, from Charles Perrault to Angela Carter, from Hans Christian Andersen to Disney, making this an authoritative and wide-ranging reference work, essential for anyone who values the tradition of storytelling." -back cover.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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124-150
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"In the light, The General in His Labyrinth (1983) may be read as yet another variation on the theme of solitary, powerful men whose separation from reality leads to the fracturing of the self, historical agency, and the promise of solidarity."
Herausgegeben von Ottmar Ette and Martin Franzbach
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Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Frankfurt, Germany : Vervuert
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Library, University of Illinois
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239, 284, 430, 600
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This work contains fundamental information for geography and town development, politics and society, economics and culture of today's Cuba. It treats numerous aspects apart from the current economic crisis and the relationship to Europe and the USA: tourism, housing and sexual politics, the myth of the revolution and the role of the political opposition, language, literature, film, music, painting and philosophy. The mixture of background information and Cuban history and culture, from the 20th century and articles to the direct present, makes this an equally useful manual today for specialists and aficionados alike.
Gerald Martin, Daniel Balderston, Marcy E. Schwartz, and eds
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Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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156-163
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A multidimensional exploration of the translation of Latin American literature into English, a process that is anchored in the region's colonial past and its post-independence process of developing and redefining cultural identities. In the first part, Latin American writers discuss translation, followed by translators who comment on their work in the second part. Critical approaches are discussed in the final section.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
México DF, México : Fondo de Cultura Económica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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17, 24-29, 43, 73, 115, 130-146, 233
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González Echeverría compiles in Crítica Práctica/Práctica Crítica a brilliant set of essays, scattered before in diverse, specialized mediums, to comment with a broader audience the origins and horizons of narrative works represented in the Latin American world: Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, and Severo Sarduy, who give a temperate and universal voice to our continent. González Echeverría concentrates on the creative zones specific to those authors to discern aspects that up until now have rarely been analyzed.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
New York, NY : The Modern Library
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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127-180
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"The fourth book in the Modern Library's Paris Review Writers at Work series, Latin American Writers at Work is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. These fascinating conversations were compiled from the annals of The Paris Review and include a new, lyrical intro by Nobel Prize-winning author Derek Walcott." Includes biographical information, interviews, and an article by Silvana Paternostro called "Three Days with Gabo."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Lanham, MD : University Press of America
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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3, 55, 66-67, 70, 73, 78-86, 93-94, 96n18, 99
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Throughout this work there are references to the above authors, specifically to Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. This study, previously published as a doctoral dissertation, is concerned with the political theory of modernity in the work of Latin American writers and thinkers. Lutes affirms that the writers' central insights point to the need to assimilate tradition through a democratic dialogue combined with critical appreciation for the cultural uniqueness of nations.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Medellín, Colombia : Fondo Editorial Universidad EAFIT
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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193-216, 231-240, 271-282
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Pineda Botero provides an interpretation of author and reader in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and analyzes the role of Melquíades as protagonist, writer and prophet; meanwhile, Aureliano represents the reader.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Bucaramanga, Colombia : Universidad Industrial de Santander
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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15, 233, 267, 272, 273, 275, 276, 342, 357, 3
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Through Gabriel García Márquez's writings, specifically El general en su laberinto, the author attempts to facilitate the reader's understanding of who Simon Bolívar was.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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22-33
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Bolaño narrates how he read an interview with a prestigious and renown Latin American writer. In the interview the author is told to name three people he admires. The author responds: Nelson Mandela, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Bolaño continues to write about other Latin American authors.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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75-81
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Gamboa expresses his opinions on magic realism, how it has developed, and how it has been taken in by the youth. He notes the importance of Gabriel García Márquez in revolutionizing with magic realism as a literary form, as well as the significance of his most important followers, for example, Isabel Allende.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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38-46
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Franco writes on how the new generation of Latin American authors have been influenced by the greats such as Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz and José Donoso.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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225-227
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Starting in 1967, an industrial editorial center and sociological alternative to Franco-based Madrid, is produced in Barcelona. A flourishing cultural movement that attracts renown authors from Latin America, some of whom establish their residency in this city. Others will receive the Premio Biblioteca Breve, and others will link themselves to Seix Barral. Amongst the authors to establish residency in Madrid is Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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136-139
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In his passion to analyze what he believes is a substantial period for writing, Padilla produces a story about crack in three-and-a-half chapters, as well as a long essay against magical realism which he has no intention to publish. Padilla continues to analyze how this manifestation of crack and McOndo came about.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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206- 219
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Volpi analyzes the boom in Latin American literature, presenting the most reknown writers: Cortázar, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, and García Márquez, among others.
Also published in Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana vol. 30 no. 59 Jan-June 2004 pg. 33-42.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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123-127
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Mendoza mentions Vargas Llosa's book García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio, in which Vargas Llosa analyzes García Márquez's development of the forces which drove him to write and to create Macondo.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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104-111
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Iwasaki strongly states his desire not to be compared with anybody and insists that no author wants to be compared to authors such as Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Fuentes, and Cortázar, among others. In other words, today's authors will not be the same as these great artists from the past, and it is harder for new authors to become world-renown because of the expectations that they have to fulfill.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Bogotá, Colombia : Panamericana Editorial, Ancora Editores
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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89-122
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Previously published by Oveja Negra, 1982. "The majority of these fifteen articles with nine Latin American authors have been made in Europe in the last five years. Some are very old: for example, the article about the three days in which Mario Vargas Llosa experienced public harrassment in Bogotá is from 1967; Ernesto Sábato's encounter with Alejandra in Manzinales is from 1970S the chronicles on the solitude of glory of Gabriel García Márquez in Cartagena; and the awarding of his prize "Romulo Gallegos" in Caracas was from 1971-72. All try to show in the most reasonable way the private and public images of the primary contemporary Latin American writers."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
March 2004
Published:
New York, NY : New York University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to explore the intersection of literature and illness in order to demonstrate that the disease metaphor is an effective trope for Latin American authors seeking to represent topics that have been culturally and historically pathologized in both national society and/or literature. It analyzes the way the rhetoric of the somatic for pathological was used at the end of the 19th century. It also traces the development of this rhetoric into the following century. The dissertation begins with an overview of general literary theory, dealing with an overview of general literary theory and with disease and representation, focusing on Susan Sontag, Julia Epstein and Sander Gilman. It offers a linguistic perspective on the functioning of metaphor as well. By bringing the ideas of medical historian, Charles Rosenberg, to bear on this linguistic discussion, the author defines the notion of the frame and framing. Frames can be understood as being parallel to the concept of the artist's convention; they are constructs that inform the perception of diseases as both a biological event and a social occurrence. Tuberculosis, cholera, and sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS in particular) are the illnesses central to this study. The Latin American writers: Abraham Valdelomar, Manuel Puig, Gabriel García Márquez and Reinaldo Arenas employ metaphors with these diseases in order to engage specific socio-historic material via frames. Each of the three chapters concentrates on a theme that has come to serve as the basis for framing the various diseases; (homo)sexuality, gender, modernization, totalitarianism and plague. These same themes have also been recognized by various literary critics as essential to thinking and problematizing the construction of Latin American identity."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Long Beach, CA : California State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The purpose of this study is to examine the image of the dictator in the literature of Latin America. The dictator, as he is depicted in the works of Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Gabriel García Márquez, is a central archetypal icon who embodies the tragic history of anti-democratic rule in the Latin American republics. The dictator, however, also personifies the complexities and contradictions that come with military rule. The 3 authors seek to examine the dynamics of dictatorial power, but they also explore deeper psychological, aesthetic, historical, and philosophical problems surrounding the novel of the dictator."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Ottawa, Canada : University of Ottawa
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This thesis examines honour as a central theme in narrative passages of 'El alcalde de Zalamea' a seventeenth-century play by Spain's Pedro Calderon de la Barca, and in 'Cronica de una muerte anunciada' (1981), a short novel by Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. By means of a comparative study, and using narratology as the primary theoretical and methodological frame, this theme is explored through the analysis of both works at three different 'levels'; that of the characters, the narrators, and the implied authors with the intention of revealing the distinct contrast between the ideology expressed at all levels and, ultimately, at the level of the respective implied authors as the embodiment of the works' ideologies, in regards to honour as a socially-regulated code of conduct. An important portion of this analysis is dedicated to discussing the relationship between the fictional components of these works and their symbolic meaning in the external or 'real'/non-fictional world in connection with said ideology."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Las Vegas, NV : University of Nevada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"By redefining social or economic 'classes' as cultures, or as Raymond Williams explains, groups that share a 'structure of feeling' the dissertation defines power in accordance with the shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and practices defined by the culture of persistence and the culture of wealth. With culturally determined definitions of power in place, the dissertation argues for a broader understanding of female power as that power associated and wielded by female characters in the writings of Willa Carter, Gabriel García Márquez, and Dorothy Allison. Engaging the strategies of feminist geographies employed by critics including Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, and the Women and Geography Study Group, the dissertation analyzes the methods by which female characters negotiate the places/spaces where they live, work, and travel, evaluating their relative successes or failures in accessing and wielding power. The three analytic chapters examine works by Cather - the novel 'The Song of the Lark', and the short story 'A Gold Slipper' García Márquez - the novel 'The Autumn of the Patriarch, and the short story 'The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow' form the collection of stories titled 'Strange Pilgrims,' and Allison - the novel 'Bastard out of Carolina,' and the short story 'I'm Working on My Charm' from the collection titled 'Trash' respectively. In order to magnify the power of the female characters in relation to the definition of power specifically determined by the character's culture, whether the culture of persistence or the culture of wealth. At the same time, the spaces/places/locations where the characters live, work, and move through are analyzed to produce an understanding of how the characters access and wield power. Finally, a stark contrast is established between the female characters created by Cather and Allison and those created by García Márquez, since Cather and Allison fully imagine female characters who are successful at accessing and wielding power in the spaces/places they live in, work in, and move through. In contrast García Márquez creates powerful women whose power functions only fully in microgeographies, and García Márquez ultimately destroys those characters, despite their access to power."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Boston, MA : Boston College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This study focuses on how a dictator or a culturally dominant power can use language to impose cultural values. As an instrument of power, language is used by dictator to educate, induce, or manipulate a nation's citizens into acting in accordance with the ruling power's cultural values and beliefs. Jorge Zalamea in 'El Gran Burundún-Burundá ha muerto'(1951), Gabriel García Márquez in 'El otoño del patriarca' (1975), and Mario Vargas Llosa in 'La fiesta del Chivo' (2000), draw attention to how the use of vernacular can resist cultural imposition by employing culture-specific items in order to represent its own culture and nature of reality. When translated into a different language, culture-specific items created a conflict of meaning between the original text and the translated text. This discord arises because the translated reference no longer conveys its original message. The original significance has been substituted in the translated text for a new meaning determined by the dictator or translators ideology, usage, or the untranslable nature of the original words. These culturally loaded words are categorized into three areas of language defines relationships of power and resistance between a dictator and his nation, or between one culture and another, such as the United States over Latin American Culture. The analysis of culture-specific items presented in this dissertation will provide an understanding of how language functions as an instrument for the imposition to gain or maintain power in 'El Gran Burundú-Burundá ha muerto', 'El otoño del patriarca', and 'La fiesta del Chivo.' Culture-specific items also suggest how translators may substitute the values of the source culture in the original text for their own cultural biases when translating from Spanish to English."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Miami, FL : University of Miami
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"In this study, I explore how three texts from the Colombian Caribbean challenge the notion of a consolidated nation-state and its rhetoric of complete mestizaje, late into the 20th century. With 'Cien años de soledad' by Gabriel García Márquez as the backdrop of my analysis, I unveil the treatment of race, myth and history respectively in three novels, and how violence shapes the meanings of these categories. The first chapter focuses on 'Chambácu, corral de negros' (1967) by Manuel Zapata Olivella. In this chapter, I define this novel as a depository of the memory of slavery in Colombia that asserts an African heritage in the Northern Coast. At the aesthetic level, I discuss Zapata Olivella's use of a social realist narrative style to articulate the identity and history of Afro-Colombians. The second chapter examines Alvaro Ceped Samudio's 'La casa grande' (1962) to explore the strategies he employs to recover and revise the events of the massacre of the Banana Workers in 1928. In my reading, the massacre emerges as the first wound that causes the disarticulation of the consolidation process of the modern Colombian nation-state. The last chapter centers on 'Los Pañamanes' (1979) by Fanny Buitrago. I define the legend of the Spanish Man, the foundational legend of the island and the text's organizing element, as a myth of origins that delineates the novel's space as a product of violence and penetration. I establish the use of myth as anti-myth to separate and divide, and to mark the difference that separates the insular space and the continental nation-state. In my conclusion, I return to 'Cien años de soledad' to explore how processes of reception and canonization in the symbolic market are 'produced' following strategies derived from the failed encounter between cultural modernism and social modernization. I argue that this process consists in eliminating the discrepancy between these two aspects to attain an abstract state of modernity."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Dominguez Hills, CA : California State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
“There have been various interpretations of the work of García Márquez. However, no detailed study has been made of the huge significance of temporality to his art. This thesis argues that García Márquez’ novels are complex considerations of humankind’s relation to time, and that time is an inherent and constitutive property of the art and meaning of his texts. To demonstrate the validity of this proposition this thesis examines structure, strategy and thematic concern and their interrelation in relation to temporality. It is, thus, divided into five sections: a brief introductory contextualization of recent critical debate concerning the relationship between temporality and narrative; an analysis of the temporal structure of García Márquez’ most important novels and how this relates to the overall meaning of his specific consideration of the temporal narrative strategies that García Márquez adopts and why these are significant to an understanding of his work; an evaluation of temporal themes in García Márquez and their centrality to his work; and a concluding section which examines the interrelation between structure, strategy and theme to demonstrate the crucial importance of temporality to a comprehensive understanding of the fiction of García Márquez.”
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Washington, DC : University of Washington
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation takes a chronosophical approach to literary study, addressing the changing ways thinkers have chosen to articulate the nature of time, and examining in particular literary works which take on time as a theme. Chronosophy is not science; it does not belong to the arts; it is not religion. Ideas of time belong nowhere but infuse everything. In order even to say this, we must speak in time, as one word necessarily comes before another, reinforcing through language an idea of temporal linearity in which Einstein proclaimed to be an illusion, albeit our most persistent one. The achievement of a remove from which one might find understanding, and Archimedian view from nowhere, has been one of the greatest projects in the history of knowledge. This dissertation discusses literary attempts to find a view from nowhen. In tracing attempts to articulate and represent time, and how those efforts have informed shifting perceptions of time found in literary works, chapter one discusses patterns of chronosophical inquiry from ancient times to Dante, focusing in particular on those ides of time which survive today. Dante Alighieri mathematically encoded a discussion of temporal contingency and ineffability into the numeric structure of his Divine Comedy. Chapter two discusses his use of Pythagorean theories in his attempts as a finite mortal bound to temporal succession to articulate a literary representation of eternity. Chapter three discusses the impact of Einstein's Relativity theory under which simultaneity in time can no longer exist, during period of invention when paradoxically a new sense of simultaneity became prominent feature of popular culture, and time was increasingly described not as a property of the world, but a property of the perceivers of the world. This chapter traces Futurist reactions to changing ideas of temporality and the variations and manipulations of time in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Chapter four discusses Jorge Luis Borges' idea of temporality as an arrangement of sympathies and differences, and examines temporality in the magic realist movement as represented by Gabriel García Márquez in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' where a temporality dependant upon individual perspective becomes lonely prospect."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Montreal, Canada : McGill University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"There are several ways of utilizing the plurality of narrative instances in a novel; the 'stereoscopic view,' which presents an object through the lens of several perceptions, is one of these ways. This is the case of 'Des feuilles dans la bourrasque (La Hojarasca), Gabriel García Marquez's first novel, which will be the center of our reflection on multiple narratives. We will study the structure of the novel through the notion of 'parallx' which implies the fragmentation of the object by the marginalization of each one its points of view. However, it is by revealing the 'stereoscopic' character of the novel with multiple narratives that the apparent lack of cohesion of the text will be qualified. The study will conclude with the following question: Does the structure of a novel with multiple narratives raise an ethical concern?
'Ecluses' is a story in five tempos, composed of five chronologically isolated short stories, which are interconnected by a context of common events and characters. The narrative of each of these short stories is supported by a distinct character. Nevertheless, it is the sum of the characters' perceptions, due to the active participation of the reader who has the role of making the different points of view converse, that the story to takes shape and goes forward."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Tampa, FL : University of South Florida
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"A thematic analysis of three major collections of short fiction by René Marqués, as well as a comparative analysis of the fiction of selected works by Marqués and texts by four major writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Mitchell. This study demonstrates the ways in which the literature of Puerto Rico shares a literary tradition with both the United States and Latin America. Topics include a discussion of how the three short story collections and two novels function as a whole, citing important unifying themes such as Man's isolation, power and (Foucault's definition of) resistance, and the emergence of perspectivism, as well as how selected texts by Marqués relate to themes in major works of American and Latin American literature, such as the supernatural in Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' love and war in Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' The Ice identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Ice Palace' and setting and magic in García Márquez' novels, especially 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' 'The New Puerto Rican-American Literature in Spanish, Volume 1 also questions why the literature of Puerto Rico, and in this case specifically the fiction of René Marqués, is extremely difficult to access outside the island. Only a few major research universities possess even a partial collection, making teaching, research and scholarship highly challenging. Included is a detailed account of the four-year long research process which finally yielded all materials. In conjunction with limited availability, the study offers additional reasons why there has not been an abundance of scholarship produced by and for the English-speaking academic community . One proposed explanation is that there is a pronounced fear of accepting Spanish as a major language of the United States. The study concludes that literature written in Spanish, in the continental United States and Puerto Rico, should be included in the curriculum of both English and Spanish departments as Puerto Rican-American literature."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Austin, TX : University of Texas at Austin
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The Spanish-American historical novels of the late twentieth century have shown a marked tendency to feature as their main characters many of the greatest historical figures of the region. Even though there have been a growing number of worthy literary studies about the historical figures portrayed in these novels, they have generally centered on a given historical character in one or more historical novels. There is a need for a comprehensive approach to the study of the great historical characters that are profiled in the New and Traditional Spanish-American Historical Novel. This dissertation is devoted to the literary analysis and conceptualization of the great historical characters that appear in contemporary Spanish-American historical novels. The study aims to formulate a comprehensive literary theory that seeks to explain the presence of great historical figures in the Contemporary Spanish-American Historical Novel. This dissertation is multidisciplinary in nature, involving research in literature historiography, monumental sculpture and iconography. The central thesis of this dissertation is that there are a significant number of great historical figures that are 'de-monumentalized' or debunked as cult figures in the historical novels of the region. The first chapter if the dissertation demonstrates the central thesis by profiling and discussing in depth a wide range of new and traditional historical novels that de-monumentalize their heroic characters. Chapter I formulates the theory of 'De-monumentalization in the Spanish-American Historical Novel.' The Chapter addresses the fundamental question of what does it mean to de-monumetalize a historical cult figure, and which ones can be de-monumentalized in a contemporary historical novel. Chapter I advances three distinct modes of De-monumentalization. Three outstanding historical novels and their main characters represent these modes. Chapter II of the dissertation illustrates how Simón Bolívar is de-monumentalized in 'El general en su laberinto' (1989) by Gabriel García Márquez. Chapter III analyzes the de-monumentalization of Benito Juárez in Fernando del Paso's 'Noticias del Imperio' (1987. Chapter IV examines how Cuba's pantheon of heroes (José Martí, Antonio Maces, ect.) is de-monumentalized in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's 'Vista del amanecer en el trópico' (1974). Chapter V presents the conclusions that were reached in this doctoral project.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
New Haven, CT : Yale University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation argues that the recourse to romance in post-realist New World writing was accompanied by a re-conceptualization of the figure of the author. While it is true that American romance in its first incarnation exemplified the generic norms of romance, this dissertation focuses on a later generation of romancers, self consciously writing 'against' realism in an attempt to 'return' to romance. I dub this movement 'New World romance'; and hold that its primary innovation was to replace the traditional plot of romance of voyage, return and heterosexual union with a meta-textual plot that concerns the attempted but failed to return to the generic 'innocence' of traditional romance after the collapse of realism. In the process of writing back to romance, the writer sheds the figural trappings of the realist author and adopts a new identity. In 'the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket' Edgar Allen Poe transforms realism from an epistemological project into a rhetorical ploy meant to dupe his readers. The author becomes a despotic figure, subjecting the reader to the tyranny of his fictions. Jorge Luis Borges explores the political consequences of such overweening authority in 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius' and proposes instead a dialogical model of the writer: the author as translator. What happens when the real is no longer the exclusive property of an author, or even a government? Culture defines reality, and when cultures come into conflict, the 'Clash of civilizations' ensues. In 'El reino de este mundo' and 'Black Tambourine' Alejo Carpentier and Hart Crane manage 'the clash' by transcribing cultural conflict into musical form, thereby transforming the author into a jazzman. Finally, in 'Cien años de soledad' Gabriel García Márquez re-imagines the encounter between reader and text as the encounter between Echo and Narcissus. Arrogating upon himself the authority to condemn the reader to perpetual longing, García Márquez becomes a kind of deity, thereby adopting a role as author that reaches beyond realism, beyond romanticism to the very origins of literature in myth and romance."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
San Diego State University : San Diego State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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73 leaves
Notes:
Leamy writes, "In tying together Joyce's concept of paralysis with García Márquez's obsession with solitude, I hope to demonstrate how religion plays a definitive role in creating the forces that drove two of the twentieth centuries [sic] most celebrated authors." (4)
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Oxford : University of Oxford
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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357 leaves
Notes:
Keenan writes, "This thesis aims to examine the models of memory proposed in five contemporary novels: Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel, Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Toni Morrison's Beloved. I will interweave my discussions of these novels' ideas on memory with considerations of wider debates about repressed/false memories and memorialisation, and I will also discuss various concepts of memory found in the discourses of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, history, and literature."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Paris, France : Univ. de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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608 p.
Notes:
This two-volume dissertation is a discussion of Swedish reception of two Nobel Prize winners' literature (Claude Simon and Gabriel García Márquez). Volume one is the thesis, while volume two includes an appendix with sources and photocopies from Swedish newspapers.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Warwick, UK : University of Warwick
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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275p.
Notes:
"This thesis provides an analysis of the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Wilson Harris in the cross-cultural context of the Americas, emphasizing the importance of myth as well as history in their attempts to explore the hybridity of post-colonial identity....Harris and García Márquez present a vision of the world in which there is creative hope for the future."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Paris, France : University of Paris
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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677p.
Notes:
This dissertation is an exploration of the difficulties intrinsic in the adaptation to film of various Latin American works, including those of García Márquez.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Perpignan, France : University of Perpignan
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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373p.
Notes:
Ngoueranga's doctoral thesis discusses the representation of the dictator figure in three Latin American novels, one of which is García Márquez's El otoño del patriarca.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
(Abstract) "The themes of the death of authority and the loss of self are portrayed in postmodern world literature. Through five culturally specific novels, both the themes of the death of authority and the resulting idea of the loss of self are explored. Gabriel García Márquez, Jerzy Kosinski, Milan Kundera, J.M. Coetzee, and Haruki Murakami provide the novels, each of which presents the postmodern individual living in the world with no sense of authority and no sense of self. These individuals abandon their cultural and social roles in the attempt to find themselves. The individual's situation is understood through the radical theology of kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Altizer and it's relationship to the deconstruction of Derrida and Barthes." (M.A. Thesis)
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
New York, United States : Columbia University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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377 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "Drawing on the work of such theorists as Peter Brooks, James Smith, Christine Gledhill, Linda Williams and Ben Singer, among others, I examine the ways in which some contemporary Colombian novels use violence and melodrama to make sense of the country's social and political turmoil. The historical context of the classic, late 18th century melodrama is comparable to that of contemporary Colombia in that both periods share a generalized feeling of instability, insecurity, and moral ambiguity." and "I also analyze the sociohistorical solutions these novels propose and, considering the incredible publishing success some of them have had, what this suggests in reference to the Colombian imaginaries and their attitudes regarding the State and the Colombian violence. By reading these texts through this unstudied perspective, I bring into focus a new way to read some of the contemporary Colombian novels." Ph.D Dissertation
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Ohio, United States : Ohio State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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262 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "Alejo Carpentier's theory of 'lo real maravilloso americano' gave shape to the 'interpretative community' of the Latin American 'Boom'--which dovetailed authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortázar among others. Like a boomerang sent into the future, this identity 'propuesta de significado,' or proposition of meaning, was thought to be miraculously embodied by the Cuban Revolution...The transnational cross-border encounters of the 'Boom' shaped and contributed to a (post)modernization of the Spanish 'imaginario patrio' and induced a feeling of anxiety that revolutionized the relations between Spanish authors and 'their' inherited tradition and language." Ph.D Dissertation
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Massachusetts, United States : Boston College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(249 p.)
Notes:
(Abstract) The author argues that 'El otoño del patriarca' (1976) and 'El arpa y la sombra' (1979) contribute to the building of knowledge about the modern Latin American by presenting the possibility of an alternate accurate representation of the past and providing a proposal for a possible utopia. Gabriel García Márquez and Alejo Carpentier wrote about the people, by the people, and for the people, transforming the knowledge that Latin Americans have about themselves, their politics, economics, social standards, and culture. Ph.D Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Texas, United States : The University of Texas at Austin
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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260 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "The Paris-based literary magazine Mundo Nuevo disseminated some of the most original and experimental Latin American writing from 1966--the date of its founding--to 1968, the year its editor-in-chief resigned and the magazine moved to Buenos Aires. Despite its fame, the magazine's role in the Boom and the cultural Cold War has been misunderstood by critics, who have either viewed Mundo Nuevo as a tool for CIA propaganda (it was recipient of CIA funds for two years) or non-political, avant-garde magazine...as much of the material from the archives in the Congress for Cultural Freedom demonstrates, Mundo Nuevo was set up by the Congress as a bulwark against the Cuban Revolution, and used the rhetoric of disinterested, cosmopolitan literature to counter the Revolution's model of literature engagée." Ph.D Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
New York, United States : Hofstra University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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46 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "The underlying principle for writing this thesis is to compare and contrast The House of the Spirits , written by the Isabel Allende, with One Hundred Years of Solitude , written by Gabriel García Márquez, in hopes of determining which of the two novels better establishes the "true" Latin American identity...in spite of the fact that The House of the Spirits is not intended to convey the "true" Latin American reality, but rather the Chilean reality, it will be argued that this novel, written by Isabel Allende, is the one that better establishes this idea." M.A. Dissertation
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
New York, United States : Teachers College, Columbia University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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213 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "In The Autumn of the Patriarch, García Márquez presents the historic stagnation of Latin America. He also describes the underdevelopment in Latin America but offers no solutions. Since its independence, Latin America has worried about defining its future and its space in international politics; nevertheless, from the start, Latin America has had developmental problems...n The Autumn of the Patriarch, previous dictators are portrayed and dictatorships in other novels are referred to as well. We attempt to clarify the description of the mythical Latin-American monster: the dictator that García Márquez portrays in The Autumn of the Patriarch." Ed.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Louisiana, United States : Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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178 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "Both William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez introduce the olfactory as a focal element in their writing, producing works that challenge the singular primacy of sight as the unrivaled means by which the New World might be understood...their fictional olfactory situations and language establish a critique of the modern era, of an all-too-Cartesian modernity in the world, and point to a new poetics specifically for the New World, where there might still be hope for the memory and the promise of a land that is 'fresh from the hand of God.'" Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
Connecticut, United States : Southern Connecticut State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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90 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the character development of the mater familias protagonist Ursula Iguarán along with her daughter, Amaranta Buendía and her daughter-in-law Rebeca Buendía are analyzed critically and theoretically through textual references and criticism...What we find are independent, desirable women subjects whose energetic determination empowers them and the society in which they live." M.A. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
California, United States : California State University, Dominguez Hills
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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65 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "This thesis argues that, fashion notwithstanding, archetype and myth provide the most compelling guide for analyzing two works by García Márquez--- One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera...the thesis emphasizes Campbell's idea that myth, a universal language, is inspired by the body's energies, a view in which lungs, heart, intestines, skin, and genitals are messengers carrying the answer to the question of human existence." M.A. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Pennsylvania, United States : University of Pittsburg
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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346 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "This dissertation examines one of the most dynamic fields of the recent literary production in Spanish language: the autobiographical discourse. It focuses on the notions of subjectivity, identity, temporality, truth, gender, race, ideology, image, memory, body, eroticism and ideology as represented in the symbolic space of autobiographical discourse of ten key authors (Reinaldo Arenas, Jorge Luis Borges, José Donoso, Salvador Elizondo, Gabriel García Márquez, Margo Glantz, Juan Goytisolo, Pablo Neruda, Severo Sarduy, Mario Vargas Llosa) of twentieth century literary tradition in Spanish/Latin American Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China : University of Hong Kong
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
(abstract) "This study examines the concepts of the archive and the manuscript, and how they are playfully raided by Barges, Puig and Márquez in Cervantes' shadow. At the same time, this study is on narrative theory, and also looks at Cervantes' influence on Latin American writers." Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
California, United States : Stanford University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
243 p.
Notes:
(Abstract) "This dissertation studies how textual representation can transform violence into a force that consolidates the affective and normative structures of a community. In the works studied here, violence is portrayed as a destructive and frightening phenomenon, but also as an experience of survival that strengthens communal ties. My analysis is based on theories of the nation as an entity constructed through narratives of violence, and my focus is Colombia, a country with a conflictive process of national consolidation...works included here are a textbook compiled in 1910 to teach national history in secondary schools, a sociological study of violence as a national problem from 1962, two early novels by Gabriel García Márquez, two compilations of testimonial narratives, by Alfredo Molano and Patricia Lara, a novel by Fernando Vallejo and another by Laura Restrepo." Ph.D Dissertation.
The author chooses to analyze how after Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel prize, his novel reaches a broad diffusion, almost losing its roots, thus becoming pertinent that these be traced, reconstructing, piece by piece, the passionate process with which a writer comes to be who he is, in a continuous counterpoint of exploration of the reality and assimilation of the literary forms that allow him to express himself.
Gil Flores compares and contrasts the movie "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba," directed by the Mexican director, Arturo Ripstein, and the book that inspired the movie, by Gabriel García Márquez.
The first volume of the memoirs of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, Vivir para contarla, first appeared on December 10, 2002 in its German translation, Leben, um davon zu erzählen. It was sold out even before it was on sale because of the amount of reserves done.
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|Gabriel García Márquez completely neglects the expositions of nominalism and in One Hundred Years of Solitude and proposes a system of characters founded on the conception of realism, this is, one in which the axiollogy appears natural and undissolubly linked to the name.
García Usta states that even though Cartagena was where one of the fundamental periods in the literary and journalistic formation of Gabriel García Márquez, and even though Cartagena is the second most important stage -- real, fictional, or multipurpose-- after Macondo, it has been subtly disdained by the most divulged interpretation of his literary genesis.
"The writer contends that Colombian author and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez presents a dismal social portrait of Latin America in several of his books, including the first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale."
After admitting for a long time, and in some cases in a simple and compliant manner, the definition of Colombia as a "land of poets" and of Bogotá as "The Athens of South America," new writers and scholars put these concepts on trial and try to formulate a literary and different cultural conscience,while giving explanations to thought and the expressive forms of the past.
"He had always been the most disciplined of writers, sitting early in the morning before his trusty Macintosh, the magical, poetic words that have defined Latin America spilling from his head. That part never changed. But then Gabriel García Márquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate from Colombia and the foremost author in Latin America, learned in 1999 that he had lymphatic cancer."
Viewed on January 15, 2008. |The intertextual dispute has been widely studied by critics of the European and American schools, even though there are several divergent points when it comes to proportioning a concrete denomination, unique and valid in intertextuality.
It will not be of much surprise that Colombia, one of the most dangerous countries in the world, according to Gabriel García Márquez, finds itself in first place with a total of 972 kidnappings. Just as in the case of Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping, the kidnappings are located in a gray area between politics and criminality, often being difficult to decide in which one it is classified, or if it's in both.
This essay discusses Gabriel García Márquez's first volume of his memoirs, Vivir para contarla, and goes into deeper analysis of what constitutes a memoir. The author also discusses Gabriel García Márquez's genius at keeping the reader hooked onto his book.
Arango asserts that by trying to take on the theme of women in García Márquez, what stands out is the abundant absence of critical studies specific to the theme. In general, the themes most studied are social-historical affairs related to Latin American and Colombian history, intertextual relationships of style and the maturity of the author in the building of a national and popular art, and of course biographical themes.
The author discusses the presence of indigenous peoples, the Wayúu tribe, in the house where the author of Cien años de soledad grew up. In 1996, his sister, Ligia García Márquez confirmed these statements during an interview with Silvia Galvis.
Dubatti states that Of Love and Other Demons skillfully combines a fitted narration and a simple prose that privileges direct communication. He also continues to mention elements of García Márquez's works.
In all of the works of the famous Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez, the theme of dreams is of outstanding importance in participating in magical realism. This article analyzes the use of dreams in the stories in Doce cuentos peregrinos.
"The majority of Gabriel García Márquez's novels and short stories are characterized by the unique coexistence of real and magical features. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is no exception. The author reveals through the main character's unexpected appearance on the scene, his giant-like traits, so reminiscent of Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and his deistically heroic behavior, the magical elements of this short story that remind us of the tales of our childhood. And yet, the very setting in place, the description of the typically Latin American villager's behaviour and the distressing sorrow caused by the protagonist's death, make this masterfully-written literary work as realistic as any other short story in the realistic movement. García Márquez's literary achievement lies precisely in his ability to fuse such divergent characteristics inherent in the magical and realistic movements."
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.
This article analyzes the continuous presence of Darwinian elements in Gabriel García Márquez's works. For example, how the writer reduces and at the same time expands his pertinence. Almarza reflects on Gabriel García Márquez's texts, characters who live in the sun, humidity, rain and sea. The rain, the heat, and the humidity come to be the omnipresent element in his texts. It is a genetic mark; for Dostoyevsky this mark was the weight of individual conscience and for Balzac it is money or the inheritance of the characters, but for Gabriel García Márquez the genetic mark is the climatic presence of the Caribbean in his narrative creatures.
Dabove says that García Márquez seems to be doing his own "critique of practical reasoning" with his "grouping" and his "evaluation." Nonetheless, to recognize La mala hora as a narrative project with capabilities of appeal, the author proposes to read it with Frederic Jameson's notion of "national allegory." With these purposes, Dabove continues his analysis.
"Explores the representation of power and in showing how the body can serve as a means to achieve everyone's desires, goals, and freedom in the novel The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and of Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel García MárquezS and the film "Eréndira," scripted by García Márquez. Master/slave theory in both texts. Representation of freedom for Eréndira. Battle for power and hegemony in the film and novel."
"Living to Tell the Tale, an astonishing first volume of the memoirs of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, closes with the author at age 28 leaving Colombia for Europe, a two-week assignment he stretches to three years. He is more than a decade from the string of masterpieces that will begin with One Hundred Years of Solitude." -Mellen
"For longtime readers of Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale will be as welcome as a cool breeze, and cause the same sort of full-body shiver. The first volume of a projected autobiographical trilogy from the Colombian Nobel laureate, Living to Tell the Tale is genuinely surprising in what it reveals of the writer's early life, his writing, and how the two interweave." -Wiersema
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"The Autumn of the Patriarch, the second of Gabriel García Márquez's three masterworks, to this day remains something of a middle child: taken for granted, overlooked, misunderstood. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is his best known novel, his most admired, most imitated and most honored. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) is his most beloved, one of the great love stories of world literature. But The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) is widely believed to be difficult, inaccessible and even unpleasant."
"So it's appropriate that this master synthesizer of high and popular culture, who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude listening only to Debussy's preludes and the Beatles" "A Hard Day's Night," ends the first volume of his projected three-part memoir with a cliffhanger... The next installments may or may not appear-- García Márquez, 75, is recovering from cancer-- and though he's surely the world's most influential living writer, we may or may not stay tuned." -Gates
Viewed on July 8, 2004.||In homage to George Simenon, master of the police thriller, this article provides commentary on this book that brings together two tales, one of Gabriel García Márquez on a story of Simenon, and the other a tale written by Simenon.
"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.
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"With the upcoming memoirs of García Márquez, here we present some episodes of his life that have been ignored, starting with the reading of Cómo aprendió a escribir García Márquez, an investigation by author and journalist, Jorge García Usta."
"At the end of 2000, I spent three months traveling around Latin America-- Barranquilla, Cartagena, Bogotá, Mexico City-- to interview friends and relatives for an oral biography of Gabriel García Márquez. Autobiography is central to García Márquez's fiction, and I was curious how the people (many of whom make appearances in his work) who knew Gabriel García Márquez as a young man would remember him." -Silvana Paternostro
"John Sayles's film Lone Star provides insights relevant to the task of remapping "The South" within a broader hemispheric context. In his homage to the genealogical obsessions of such writers as Faulkner and García Márquez, Sayles explores the challenge posed by the determinism of a paternalistic past. The film stresses the paradoxical meaning of incest as reconciliation: history must be revisited precisely so that it can be rendered irrelevant to the task of re-imagining racial and regional identities in a plural America."
"This month, Gabriel García Márquez's Living to Tell the Tale (Vivir para contarla) comes to an American audience, neatly coinciding with a PEN American Center tribute to the author on November 5. Already a best seller in the Spanish-speaking world, this new work is the first volume in an epic trilogy of García Márquez's life."
García Marruz briefly discusses each of Gabriel García Márquez's important writings by intertwining them into one big story. She proceeds to compare García Márquez to Cervantes and other writers.
Toulouse, France : Institut d'etudes hispaniques, hispano-américaines et luso brésiliennes de l'université
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Library, University of Illinois
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(79) : 257-264
Notes:
Gilard mentions that "Relatos de un viajero imaginario," a text that appeared signed with the pseudonym of Lorenzo Magadalena, was García Márquez. This was initially published in El Espectador of Bogotá.
Cabañas Bravo examines the representation of violence in three Colombian narrative works: La virgen de los Sicarios (1994) by Fernando Vallejo, Noticia de un secuestro (1996) by Gabriel García Márquez, and Rosario Tijeras (1999) by Jorge Franco Ramos. Precisely, the hitman figure becomes an allegoric figure, through which the complexities of the issue of violence in society are explored. These narrative works recompose the contradictions, hypocrisies and tricks of the moral and social codes of Colombia, as well as offering new interpretations of the hitman as a symptom of deeper sociopolitical issues. This literature demythifies the causes of violence, deconstructing the myths created by the elite class.
Washington, DC : Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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21(3) : 130
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"Focuses on the views of novelist Gabriel García Márquez as written in Press/Politics journal about the pernicious effect of tape recorders on journalism. Advantage of tape recorder on radio interviews, disadvantages of tape recorders in journalism."
Kowalski discusses the purchase of Cambio 16, a Colombian magazine by Gabriel García Márquez and a group of journalists. He also brings out the financial problems suffered by the magazine. Concludes with comments from the magazine's publisher Patricia Lara."
Santiago, Chile : Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Literatura
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Library, University of Illinois
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(61) : 145-185
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"This article represents an "analysis" and "interpretation" (Kayser) of García Márquez, particularly of his most famous novel. The psychosemantics in the title already reveals the power of myth, displayed in the archetype (Jung) of Macondo, Úrsula, of Time, etc. The perspective applied to the novel includes and integrates psychohistorical, psychomythological and ethnopsychological dimensions, clearly in the vanguard of contemporary psychology. This interpretation not only appeals to Freud and Jung, but also to the psychological and social sciences of the Latin America of today." -Abstract at the end of article
This is the real story that originated as a movie script, then as a movie, then became a journalistic article, and finally a literary story. This article tells the story of how Un cuento peregrino by García Márquez came to be what we know today.