A companion to Gabriel García Márquez
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A companion to Gabriel García Márquez
(Colección Támesis, ser. A ; Monografías ; 276)
Tamesis, 2010
- : hbk
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Note
Guide to further reading: p. 167-170
Bibliography: p. [171]-178
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America, an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism" and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some ofthe strategies of the postmodern.
The author demonstrates that Garcia Marquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on Garcia Marquez's interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete insight into Garcia Marquez's strategies as a Modernist with heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of his social and political preoccupations.
RAYMOND LESLIE WILLIAMS is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Riverside.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Garcia Marquez, the Modernists and the Boom
Cien anos de soledad and the Macondo Cycle
El otono del patriarca and the Political Writings
El amor en los tiempos de colera, Cronica de una muerte anunciada and La increible y triste historia de la candida Erendira y de su abuela desalmada
Recent Writing
Epilogue
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