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Gabriel García Márquez A Critical Companion
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Rubén Pelayo
Book Code: GR1260
ISBN: 0-313-31260-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31260-1
200 pages, figure
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2001
List Price: $46.95 (UK Sterling Price: £26.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This book will be a great addition in schools where literature teachers need to offer role models to their Spanish-American students...Recommended.
    —Gale Reference for Students     August 2002
Description: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez had already earned tremendous respect and popularity in the years leading up to that honor, and remains, to date, an active and prolific writer. Readers are introduced to García Márquez with a vivid account of his fascinating life; from his friendships with poets and presidents, to his distinguished career as a journalist, novelist, and chronicler of the quintessential Latin American experience. This companion also helps students situate García Márquez within the canon of Western literature, exploring his contributions to the modern novel in general, and his forging of literary techniques, particularly magic realism, that have come to distinguish Latin American fiction. Full literary analysis is given for One Hundred Years of Solitude, as well as Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), two additional novels, and five of García Márquez's best short stories. Students are given guidance in understanding the historical contexts, as well as the characters and themes that recur in these interrelated works. Narrative technique and alternative critical perspectives are also explored for each work, helping readers fully appreciate the literary accomplishments of Gabriel García Márquez.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Kathleen Gregory Klein
  • The Life of Gabriel García Márquez
  • Literary Contexts
  • Leaf Storm (1955)
  • No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)
  • The Short Stories
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001023337
LCC Class: PQ8180
Dewey Class: 863
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