United States : Latin American Literary Review Press
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30(60) : pp. 128-146
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"Jorgensen explores the points of convergence and conflict in the criticism and, in concluding, to signal aspects of Isabel Allende's work, including some problematical qualities, that have not received due attention. She starts by accounting for the large body of criticism on 'La casa de los espiritus,' 'De amor y de sombra' and 'Eva Luna,' and the well-known debate over 'Casa,' and then she focuses on the relatively few articles that treat Allende's books published form 1991 to 2001." Also focuses on the debate between her works and the works of García Márquez, specifically 'La Casa de los espiritus,' and 'Cien años de soledad' respectively
This article lists the Neustadt Laureates from 1970 through 2006. It also lists the Puterbaugh Fellows from 1968 through 2005. Gabriel García Márquez was a 1972 Laureate.
Washington, D.C. : Organisation of American States
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57(1) : p. 64
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This article presents a short story written by Gabriel García Márquez about man named Abel Quezada. The story focuses on the issues dealing with Quezada's life and his personal troublings.
Cánovas discusses allegory in various Latin American works, among them, García Márquez's La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada.
Salamanca, Spain : Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
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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."
Hart studies and analyzes Simón Bolívar. He studies his impact in Latin America and provides biographical and informational data. The end of the article details information on Bolívar's portrayal in García Márquez' work El general en su laberinto.
Jeffrey Lamb analyzes and reviews Humberto Crosthwaite's novel, El Gran Pretender. In the critical essay he discusses how Crosthwaite is "the product of a university education that presented canonical writers from both Mexico and Latin America, including those of the "Boom": Julio Cortazar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
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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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
"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."