Garcia Marquez

by Robin W. Fiddian (Editor)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most celebrated, and most widely read, Latin American novelist of his generation. His highly-acclaimed work includes One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his literary production prior to Chronicle of a Death Foretold. A principal exponent of 'magical realism', his work forms a significant part of the debate about postmodernist writing, and the study of fantasy as a genre.
Dr. Fiddian's detailed and accessible Introduction places Marquez's work in the contexts of national, regional (Caribbean) and continental (Latin American) writing and develops a coherent overview of the author's literary output. The essays selected for inclusion in this collection bring together some of the most up-to-date and authoritative assessments of Marquez's writing, from early stories and novellas, through the major novels, up to Love in the Time of Cholera. Featuring a variety of critical approaches, this fascinating study provides the first annotated anthology of criticism in English.

244 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1995

Reviews

[Chris Leuchtenburg · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was such a struggle to work through given my weak Spanish. But reading on Kindle with the Spanish/English dictionary made it possible. Marquez's tendency to alude to rather than spell out his central themes, makes it doubly difficult. Add to that the absence of subject pronouns in Spanish, and it makes for a difficult task. Marquez has a bleak view of the world, but a subtle and penetrating gaze.

[Monica scrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short, but meaningful stories. The fun of reading Marquez lies in his "plot twists" in the end and the irony that I feel that one cannot help but enjoy.

It's fun and memorable. It's also one of those books that, after finishing, make me lay there and wonder if the next one will be this good.

[Mayi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Escrito por el dios Gabo.

[Rocio · Rating 4 out of 5]

estuvo muy bueno, el cuento de la mamá grande me saco años de vida, pedo el resto esta bien ANSIOSOS ABSTENERSE

[Silvana Temesio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Genial

[Simón · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pre 100 años

[Annette · Rating 5 out of 5]

En esta vida todos, grandes o pequeños, ricos o pobres, hombres o mujeres, todos llegaremos un día a ser devorados por gusanos, lo único que resta de nosotros en la tierra además de hijos o nietos es la memoria de nuestros actos que dejamos impregnada en nuestras familias, amigos y conocidos .

[Vilma Mesa · Rating 5 out of 5]

sad book

[Carolina Rodz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una serie de cuentos que se relacionan a un pueblo caluroso de Colombia y sus habitantes. Muy bueno!

[Roxana · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't like Cien Años de Soledad. These stories are an extra to that book. It was ok (barely)

[Yuval Kanev · Rating 5 out of 5]

For me it is always a great experience to read Garcia Marquez. More than any other work, though, I admire his autobiography "Living to Tell the Tale" ("Vivir para contarla").