Bogotá, Colombia : Instituto de Estudios Politicos y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Library, University of Illinois
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43 : 100-112
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This article views Gabriel Garcia Marquez's (1972) "La increible y triste historia de la cándida Erendira y su abuela desalmada (The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother)" as not simply rhetoric but a portrait of the human experience of power. The story, style, structure, and social geographical context of the book are contrasted with those of other works by García Márquez. The psychology of the grandmother in the books is tied to that of the mythical dictator in El otoño del patriarca (The Autumn of the Patriarch; the author modeled this personality type on numerous Latin American and historical dictators, with parts drawn from Shakespeare and Italian neorealist films. Religious, sexual, and material symbols of power in the story are discussed.
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.
"First there will be a brief technical outline of the relationship between fiction and history, for which I owe a good part of my reflection to the work of Paul Ricoeur, as well as to authors such as Hayden White, Le Goff, Roger Chartier, Frederick Jameson, Beatriz Sarlo, Roberto Schwarz and Antonio Cándido. Secondly, I will present an outline focusing on Colombian literature, still in process, from two novels, Pax by José María Rivas Groot y Lorenzo Marroquín, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I am unsure how conscious is the relationship between the two, but what is certain is that the first influences the intention of the second."
"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."
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.
A passage from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, Leaf Storm (1957), is used as an example to explain transculturation literature. The naturalist voice of the narrator is substituted for an "outward and inward vision," allowing the villager's perspective on modernization to coexist with an external view of events. Garcia Marquez's techniques provoke observations about literary historiography as the movement of culture, tradition, and institutions rather than as a project of classification.
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.
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.