"Este artículo presenta un análisis de 'Relato de un náufrago', opúsculo híbrido de la primera etapa de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez, en el contexto genérico de la llamada narrativa de naufragios. Partiendo de una observación sobre el renovado interés por la literatura de naufragios, se revisan algunos ejemplos históricos de esta forma textual que hacen eco en la obra. A pesar de la presencia del naufragio como tema en la literatura e historiografía hispanoamericanos, llama la atención la ausencia de un género específico para su representación narrativa, algo que sí se da en la tradición portuguesa. Es la tesis del presente trabajo que 'Relato de un naufrago' representa una reinvención de la narrativa de naufragios para las letras hispanoamericanas, poníendola a la vez al tanto con el contexto político y literario del siglo XX."
Copenhagen, Denmark : Institut d'études romanes de l'Université de Copenhague
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Library, University of Illinois
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40(2) : 274-88
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"Este artículo presenta un análisis de 'Relato de un náufrago,' opúsculo híbrido de la primera etapa de la obra de Gabriel García Márquez, en el contexto genérico de la llamada narrativa de naufragios. Partiendo de una observación sobre el renovado interés por la literatura de naufragios, se revisan algunos ejemplos históricos de esta forma textual que hacen eco en la obra. A pesar de la presencia del naufragio como 'tema' en la literatura e historiografía hispanoamericanos, llama al atención la ausencia de un género específico para su representación narrativa, algo que sí se da en la tradición portuguesa. Es la tesis del presente trabajo que 'Relato de un náufrago' representa una reinvención de la narrativa de naufragios para las letras hispanoamericanas, poniéndola a la vez al tanto con el contexto político y literario del siglo XX."
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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Library, University of Illinois
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37 : pp. 23-50
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This article discusses the contribution to inter-and transdisciplinary study of the "Comparatística de los Medios"(Medienkomparatistik) and emphasizes the crucial role the electronic media has to philological studies. The article focuses on Gabriel García Márquez, Hanna Schygulla and Cesare Zavattini in relation to these issues.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2005
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Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press
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Library, University of Illinois
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(79.1) : 189-193
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In his review Townley states that, "His long awaited memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, the first in a planned autobiographical trilogy, is a richly imagined volume, brimming with lush description and historical immediacy. And if the author has, over the course of his seventy-five magical years, succumbed to those ineluctable lapses in memory, we're certainly none the wiser. And it wouldn't matter anyway: as García Márquez writes in the book's epigraph, "Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it."" Townley also states that, "unlike many contemporary autobiographies, this one does not indulge in postmodern fripperies. Instead, García Márquez offers a "traditional" memoir: one recounted through the first person in the past tense, in a voice both warm and conversational."
Read discusses Bucheli's Bananas and Business and the negative reputation the United Fruit Company has. He states that "This interpretation came early to Colombian critics after a 1928 massacre of striking workers left hundreds, maybe thousands, dead. Gabriel García Márquez exaggerated the details of this violence for One Hundred Years of Solitude, and few others have believed the company did more good than harm."
Ryan Long analyzes various aspects of Latin American social and political culture as he "reviews several books. "Letters to a Young Novelist," by Mario Vargas Llosa; "A Story Teller: Mario Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism," by Braulio Muñoz; "Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World," by Kmberle S. Lopez; "No Apocalypse, No Integration: Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America," by Martín Hopenhayn."
"This dissertation argues that the recourse to romance in post-realist New World writing was accomplished by a reconceptualization of the figure of the author. While it is true that American romance in its first incarnation exemplified the generic norms of romance, this dissertation focuses on a later generation of romancers, self-consciously writing against realism in an attempt to return to romance. I dub this movement 'New World Romance' and hold that its primary innovation was to replace the traditional plot of romance of voyage, return, and heterosexual union with a meta-textual plot that concerns the attempted but failed return to the generic 'innocence' of traditional romance after the collapse of realism. In the process of writing back to romance, the writer sheds the figural trappings of the realist author and adopts a new identity... Finally, in Cien años de soledad Gabriel García Márquez re-imagines the encounter between reader and text as the encounter between Echo and Narcissus. Arrogating upon himself the authority to condemn the reader to perpetual longing, García Márquez becomes a kind of deity, thereby adopting a role as author that reaches beyond realism, beyond romanticism to the very origins of literature in myth and romance."
María José Navia discusses the work by Margarita Saona. Saona describes and analyzes the relationship between the novel and the nation in contemporary Latin American literature. Navia notes that the first chapters of Saona's work are dedicated to the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, and José Donoso.