Bertussi briefly analyzes the poetry and fiction of several well-known 19th and 20th century Latin American writers to explore the role of literary texts in the liberation process and social transformation. At issue are the definitive, inspirational, galvanizing, informative, cathartic, and transformational powers of Latin American literature and legacy of poetry and fiction in Latin America. All these are recorded through the works of Argentinean poet Jose Hernandez (1834-1886), Chilean poet/writer Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), and Brazilian novelist Jose Lins Do Rego (1901-1957), and the still active literary figures of Peruvian writer/politician Mario Vargas Llosa, Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean novelist Isabel Allende. All are examined as agents of social transformation who identify and disseminate the human rights movements at work in their respective nations.
Bogotá, Colombia : Instituto de Estudios Politicos y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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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.
Medellín, Colombia : Editorial Universidad de Antioquia
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436
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"Este cursillo va a tratar de una tésis sobre la formación de la literatura, apoyada fundamentalmente en textos de la novelística de García Márquez, lo cual indica usar un tanto a García Márquez como ejemplo para la demostración de una teoría literaria. Ahora bien, los textos fundamentales que vamos a trabajar son 'La hojarasca', 'El coronel no tiene quién le escriba', y 'Cien años de soledad'; además usaremos, desde luego, algunos otros materiales que pertenecen a cuentos o diversas fuentes e informaciones que reseñaré directamente y por extenso si es necesario."
"According to many testimonies, like García Márquez's exact contemporary the Mexican Carlos Fuentes or the Colombian critic many years younger than both, Michael Palencia Roth, 'Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)' is the one novel where Latin Americans recognize themselves instantly: their own social, cultural reality, their families, and the history of their countries. It is also the mirror in which a generation of Europeans and North Americans, by the millions, since its publication, have discovered the magical reality of an exotic continent, and a taste for its hallucinatory literature. Are they reading the same novel?"
This book makes references to Gabriel García Márquez on pages 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 62, 63, 64, 65, 69, 74, 76, 85, 238, 270-275, 279-280, 305, 308, 310, 315.
The the following novels are mentioned:
"El amor en tiempos del cólera" ("Love in the Time of Cholera) 88.
"Cien años de soledad" ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") 2, 5, 15, 59, 61, 62, 63, 74, 85, 86, 94, 239, 258-267, 291, 302, 306, 308, 310.
"Crónica de una muerta anunciada" ("Chronicle of a Death Foretold") 88, 266.
"El coronel no tiene quien le escribe" ("No One Writes to the Colonel)62.
"Los funerales de la Mamá Grande" ("Big Mama's Funeral") 74.
"La hojarasca" 265.
"La mala hora" ("In Evil Hour") 62, 74.
"El Otoño del patriarca" ("The Autumn of the Patriarch") 10, 62, 265.