This anthology includes four works by Gabriel García Márquez: "La siesta del martes," "El ahogado más hermoso del mundo," "El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve," and "Sólo viene a hablar por teléfono." It also includes a short selection about Gabriel García Márquez on page 410.
"El meollo de la obra es que, cuando se haya leído una obra de García Márquez, tengamos, a nuestro alcance, todos o casi todos los detalles de la obra para poderlos usar más tarde, en el momento adecuado y con la garantía de la seriedad de nuestras citas o referencias. No es un libro para leerlo de un solo tirón. No. Esa no es la finalidad."
"Tampoco lo fue el anerior sobre la zoologia. Puede decirse, si con ello nos damos a entender mejor, que este libro es un libro 'referencial' o 'institucional' para una mejor memoria de las obras de GGM, y sea para propios o extraños de su obra."
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.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
New Haven, CT : Yale University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation argues that the recourse to romance in post-realist New World writing was accompanied by a re-conceptualization 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 to 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. In 'the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket' Edgar Allen Poe transforms realism from an epistemological project into a rhetorical ploy meant to dupe his readers. The author becomes a despotic figure, subjecting the reader to the tyranny of his fictions. Jorge Luis Borges explores the political consequences of such overweening authority in 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius' and proposes instead a dialogical model of the writer: the author as translator. What happens when the real is no longer the exclusive property of an author, or even a government? Culture defines reality, and when cultures come into conflict, the 'Clash of civilizations' ensues. In 'El reino de este mundo' and 'Black Tambourine' Alejo Carpentier and Hart Crane manage 'the clash' by transcribing cultural conflict into musical form, thereby transforming the author into a jazzman. 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."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
(Abstract) "The themes of the death of authority and the loss of self are portrayed in postmodern world literature. Through five culturally specific novels, both the themes of the death of authority and the resulting idea of the loss of self are explored. Gabriel García Márquez, Jerzy Kosinski, Milan Kundera, J.M. Coetzee, and Haruki Murakami provide the novels, each of which presents the postmodern individual living in the world with no sense of authority and no sense of self. These individuals abandon their cultural and social roles in the attempt to find themselves. The individual's situation is understood through the radical theology of kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Altizer and it's relationship to the deconstruction of Derrida and Barthes." (M.A. Thesis)
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Pennsylvania, United States : University of Pittsburg
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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346 p.
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(Abstract) "This dissertation examines one of the most dynamic fields of the recent literary production in Spanish language: the autobiographical discourse. It focuses on the notions of subjectivity, identity, temporality, truth, gender, race, ideology, image, memory, body, eroticism and ideology as represented in the symbolic space of autobiographical discourse of ten key authors (Reinaldo Arenas, Jorge Luis Borges, José Donoso, Salvador Elizondo, Gabriel García Márquez, Margo Glantz, Juan Goytisolo, Pablo Neruda, Severo Sarduy, Mario Vargas Llosa) of twentieth century literary tradition in Spanish/Latin American Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China : University of Hong Kong
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
(abstract) "This study examines the concepts of the archive and the manuscript, and how they are playfully raided by Barges, Puig and Márquez in Cervantes' shadow. At the same time, this study is on narrative theory, and also looks at Cervantes' influence on Latin American writers." Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
California, United States : Stanford University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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243 p.
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(Abstract) "This dissertation studies how textual representation can transform violence into a force that consolidates the affective and normative structures of a community. In the works studied here, violence is portrayed as a destructive and frightening phenomenon, but also as an experience of survival that strengthens communal ties. My analysis is based on theories of the nation as an entity constructed through narratives of violence, and my focus is Colombia, a country with a conflictive process of national consolidation...works included here are a textbook compiled in 1910 to teach national history in secondary schools, a sociological study of violence as a national problem from 1962, two early novels by Gabriel García Márquez, two compilations of testimonial narratives, by Alfredo Molano and Patricia Lara, a novel by Fernando Vallejo and another by Laura Restrepo." Ph.D Dissertation.
"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.
"This article is about the role of García Márquez and particularly macondismo as an ideology in establishing the canonic validity of vallenato as a folk genre from the Colombian Caribbean. García Márquez's chronicles of the early 1950's are seen as foundational texts on the aesthetics and value of vallenato; texts which influence subsequent writings on the topic. One of the main topics explored is how these texts acquire canonic validity through the success of One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is then that macondismo - the Latin Americanist celebration of magical realism - becomes an interpretive metaphor for Colombia, and vallenato music becomes the sonorous emblem of this metaphor. This occurs through García Márquez's writings, his multiple interventions in Colombian vallenato festivals, and the way vallenato is subsequently taken by a journalistic elite of the country as representing a macondian sonorous paradigm. The article explores how these different elements coalesce in constructing a genealogy of aurality for vallenato, setting the parameters of its interpretive significance through multiple processes of folklorisation of the genre."
Copenhagen, Denmark : Institut d'études romanes de l'Université de Copenhague
Location:
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."
"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."
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.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(37) : pp. 23-50
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Cabezón writes, "el presente estudio se concentrará en la participación protagónica de Gabriel García Márquez, quien con su labor de paladín ha proporcionado suficiente material a la investigación de las interferencias e interdependencias entre la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos."
John S. Christie mentions Gabriel García Márquez in his discussion of magical realism and the Latin American Boom in literature, which he states was "brought on by the unparalleled success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude."
"Drawing upon the author's experiences of growing up white and gay in apartheid South Africa, this collection of personal essays explores themes of kitsch, displacement, love, sexuality, and forgiveness. A central question posed by the work is whether virtues such as love and forgiveness are worth the cost they frequently exact. These costs include, but are not limited to, denial of the self and individual perception in order to make possible a sense of profound union with other persons. In the end the dissertation concludes that it is best to accept a level of permanent and irrevocable yearning for connection and healing which human life will never entirely fulfill." Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned in the dissertation.
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."
"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."
Barranquilla Colombia : Fundación Cultural Nueva Música: La Iguana Ciega
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Gabriel García Márquez is mentioned various times through out the book, specifically on pages 17, 24, 69, 70, 76, 82, 91, 92, 94, 98, 102, and 110-114.
This article reviews the book "Look Away! The U.S. South in New world Studies" edited by Jon Smith and Demorah Cohn. On page 1202 the author states "Smith and Cohn insist on refuting García Márquez's assimilation of the U.S. South into the Caribbean, arguing for the insoluble differences of the two spaces (7); Handley reminds us of how little we actually know of the historical traumas that underwrite such claims in the first place."
Scarpaci describes recent changes in viewpoints in Cuban film. He focuses on the underlying satire and criticism that films use to portray Cuban culture, Socialism, bureaucracy, etc.. Scarpaci examines that a particular filmmaker,Fernando Pérez, has a magical realist undertone similar to García Márquez's work.
Centeno writes about Cuba's social and political place in Latin America. One of the focuses of the article describes where power in the Cuban State comes from, and what the practices of government have lead to. He relates the state of Cuba's warlordism to Gabriel García Márquez.
The article talks about violence and drugs in Columbia. Brief mention of Gabriel García Márquez as a kind of historian of Twentieth century Colombian violence.
Hedeen reviews four books that discuss the Latin American struggle against "neo-colonial dominance." There is a brief mention of García Márquez's being denied a travel visa.
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."
Chile : Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Letras
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Library, University of Illinois
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37 : pp. 11-21
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In a critical essay, Mario Lillo P studies the infrarrealistic aspects in the novel "Mantra", by Rodrigo Fresán. He briefly mentions Gabriel García Márquez when discussing style.
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.
Denmark : Universidad de Aarhus, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
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Library, University of Illinois
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11 : pp. 1-15
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Discusses the social, political and economic state of Columbia. Focuses on the fluctuations within the nation as well as cultural influences. Mentions historical figures, writers, and political figures.
(Abstract) "In the four recent novels considered in this study, Nicaraguan novelist Sergio Ramírez adopts a particular stance towards history that reflects the essence of the sub-genre known as the new historical novel. The novels treated in the dissertation, Sombras nada más (2002), Margarita, está linda la mar (1998), Un baile de máscaras (1995), and Castigo diving (1988), all recreate key moments in Nicaraguan history from the unique perspective of the new historical novel...My research argues that Ramirez's novels question and even attack the official version of events in Nicaraguan history. In addition to identifying the numerous traits of the new historical novel in each of the four novels, I also consider how the adoption of this particular approach affects the view of Nicaraguan history and the concept of history in general that the novels present." The author mentions that "the rapid growth of the new historical novel in Latin American literature in the last twenty years has left a dramatic mark on the works of celebrated writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa." Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press
Location:
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."