Originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis at Universität Leipzig in 2003, this book discusses Latin American historical fiction, focusing on the named authors.
This work relies on the hypothesis that Aureliano Buendía's character is based on the life of General Ramón Demetrio Morán. Thus Henríquez affirms that One Hundred Years of Solitude has been written in code and the literary style of the Nobel's fantasy and imagination impeded to find the true background of the novel.
"El talento, la agudeza, y el humor de Gabriel García Márquez campean en este repertorio que contiene más de 350 acepciones recogidas de sus obras de ficción y de sus crónicas, e incluso de algunas de las pocas entrevistas que ha condedido en su vida."
"El propósito de hacer un glosario, segun la escritora Piedad Bonnett, es penetrar en el alma y el pensamiento del nobel colombiano [por una vía alterna, midiendo sus énfases y paseándonos por toda clase de tópicos, de lo ridículo a lo sublime, para gozar con su perspectiva del mundo]. Mundo garciamarquiano que en este libro comienza con la evocación del [acordeón] y termina con la palabra [zapato]."
This book gathers articles, essays and notes about Colombian literature written between 1967 and 1997. Gabriel García Márquez takes the lead in what the author calls "the mid-century generation."
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.
México DF, México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Difusión Cultural, Dirección de Literatura
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Library, University of Illinois
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This work is a type of analysis that is traditionally known as a themeology, in other words, it talks about the interrelationships between the literary works of this kind. The author begins classifying the novels in the following categories: (a) "Enfoques," which is more or less the perspective through which the flow of information is regulated. (b) "Testigos," as the name says it. the witness of the novel is the same imaginary narrator, who at the same time, imposes his perspective. (c) "Intimidades," novels in which the author looks behind the characters and relevant historic situations, he expresses that the reader is who solicits that intimate look. (d) "Posmodernidad," where the new historic novel coincides with the postmodernism. (e) "Irreverencia," Robert Graves was the first that included this characteristic in the historic novels, by taking history precisely as a sketch made by historians and completed by the novelists. (f) "Depuración," by the interpretation of the author, is an inherent process to the historic novel, for which in Anglosaxon literature, there has been a distinction between romance and novel. (g) "Pronósticos," where it says that literary criticism should also be prospective, lastly (h) "Diferencias," where the author exposes his theoric differences with Seymour Menton.