Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Place on List:
III. Period: 1960 - 2009
1.
Primary Texts: Narrative Prose
Gabriel
García Márquez. Crónica
de una muerte anunciada.
(1981)
Key Terms (tags): spanish literature,
narrative prose, twentieth century, period
Supporting References:
- Birch, Dinah. "García Márquez, Gabriel." The Oxford Companion to English Literature. : Oxford University Press, 2009. Oxford Reference. 2009. Date Accessed 16 Aug. 2013
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on the author and not on the information sheet object text.
“García Márquez, Gabriel (1927/8– ) Colombian novelist, born
in the Caribbean backwater of Aracataca, and a key figure in the
Boom.
He was educated at the Liceo Nacional at Zipaquirá, near Santa Fe de
Bogotá, and never completed his university law degree. After
beginning his lifelong journalistic career, he went to Europe for the
Liberal Colombian newspaper El espectador and in 1955
published his first novel, La hojarasca (Leaf Storm);
it introduces the isolated fictional town of Macondo, which more
famously became the setting for his Cien años de soledad
(1967: One Hundred Years of Solitude), written in Mexico and
recounting the lives of several generations of the Buendía family.
In this exuberant, tragicomic novel of magic
realism, a style which García Márquez
popularized, a deadpan narrator adopts the voice of a rural Caribbean
storyteller, relating in closely observed detail a series of
plausible and marvellous events which provide a history of Colombia
seen from below. The author has long supported the Cuban Revolution;
the novel has a strong political dimension. Known primarily as a
magic realist, García Márquez's work is in fact constantly
experimental, from his realist novella El coronel no tiene quien
le escriba (1958: No One Writes to the Colonel) to the
complex novel of dictatorship El otoño del patriarca (1975:
The Autumn of the Patriarch), and the fictional
investigation of a murder in Crónica de una muerte anunciada
(1981: Chronicle of a Death Foretold). In 1985 he published
El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Love in the Time of
Cholera), an examination of love, memory, and old age, in the
form of a popular romance. His later work includes El general en
su laberinto (1989: The General in his Labyrinth), a
re‐creation of Simón Bolívar's final days, Del amor y otros
demonios (1994: Of Love and Other Demons), and Memoria
de mis putas tristes (2004: Memories of my Melancholy
Whores). García Márquez is a master of both the wide‐ranging
saga, and the spare short story in which much is left unsaid. He has
published several collections of stories, among them Los
funerales de la Mamá Grande (1962: Big Mama's Funeral)
and Doce cuentos peregrinos (1992: Strange Pilgrims).
His work is influenced by writing in English, especially that of
William
*Faulkner, Ernest
*Hemingway, James
*Joyce, and Virginia
*Woolf, while he has inspired writers like
Salman
*Rushdie and Angela
*Carter. He was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1982; Vivir para
contarla (Living to Tell the Tale), the first volume of
his autobiography, appeared in 2002.”
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