A collection of essays about García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, including authors such as David T. Haberly, Keith Harrison, Roberto González Echeverría, John J. Deveny Jr. and Juan Manuel Marcos, Elizabeth A. Spiller, Paul M. Hedeen, Jonathan Baldo, Iddo Landau, Dean J. Irvine, Irvin D.S. Winsboro, Alexander Coleman, and Mary E. Davis.
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.
This volume is edited, and contains an introduction by, Harold Bloom. It also includes an interview with García Márquez, a biography, various critical essays of his works, bibliographic references, and an index.
The book begins with a short biography of Gabriel García Márquez's life and discusses his contributions to literature, including literary techniques such as magical realism. It also provides literary analysis for five short stories and "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," and "Love in the Time of Cholera."
"Since the appearance of the first publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) in German, Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the great authors of present literature in Germany. Gabriel García Márquez's success culminated with the Nobel Prize in 1982 and now begins again through his autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale. Harald Irnberger, who has known Gabriel García Márquez and his works for thirty years, looks beyond the magic realism and into the political and journalistic aspects of Gabriel García Márquez. This book submits numerous facts and interpretations." -www.amazon.de
Criticism and interpretation of Gabriel García Márquez's life and works, beginning with his life and progressing through to One Hundred Years of Solitude and ending with Love in the Time of Cholera.