Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Notes:
"Many novels from the 1970s and 1980s demonstrate an awareness of this through intertextuality with the chronicles of conquest and colonization: Mexican Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra (1975); Colombian Gabriel García Márquez's El otoño del patriarca (1975), published in translation as The Autumn of the Patriarch; Cuban Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra (1979), published in translation as The Harp and the Shadow; Colombian Albalucía Ángel's Las andariegas (The wandering women, 1983); Argentine Griselda Gambaro's Lo impenetrable (1984); and Mexican Margo Glantz's Síndrome de naufragios (Shipwreck syndrome, 1984) do not represent linear historical narratives, nor do they deal exclusively with the conquest, but they do draw heavily upon the colonial chronicles in the formation of innovative narratives that transcend particular chronological periods."