Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity
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- Synopsis
- Márquez enjoys world-wide popularity and it is not surprising that much has been written about him. But a further reason for the enormous critical literature is that, despite his apparent transparency as a consciously popular writer, his fiction is peculiarly elusive of interpretation. Much good criticism of Márquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel. It seemed the implicit goal to which the earlier fiction had been striving. In The General in his Labyrinth it emerges that the Bolivar figure is a reworking of earlier solitaries from throughout Márquez fiction and the fading of myth into history has its full pregnancy in the light of this double reference. By concentrating on the later novels, including The General in his Labyrinth, this study brings out the internal dialogue between the novels so that One Hundred Years of Solitude stands out, like Don Quixote in Cervantes' oeuvre, as atypical yet more deeply representative. Behind the popular impact of its 'magical realism' lies Márquez' abiding meditation on the nature of fictional and historical truth.--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- Copyright:
- 1993
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 161 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312099886
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Addition:
- 10/11/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Michael Bell
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Kent Stein
- Proofread By:
- Kari G
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.