Gabriel García Márquez and Ovid: Magical and Monstrous Realities

Lorna Robinson

Gabriel García Márquez and Ovid

Magical and Monstrous Realities

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Lorna Robinson, University College London

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: April 2013
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781782040668

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies
Series:: Monografías A

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This book explores the ways in which Ovid's poem, 'Metamorphoses', and Gabriel García Márquez's novel, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', use magical devices to construct their literary realities. The study examines in detail the similarities and differences of each author's style and investigates the impact of politics and culture upon the magical and frequently brutal realities the two authors create in their works. Ultimately the book is interested in the use of magical elements by authors in political climates where freedoms are being restricted, and by using magical realism to explore Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', it is able to illuminate aspects of the regime of emperor Augustus and the world of Ovid and demonstrate their closeness to that of García Márquez's Colombia. Lorna Robinson holds a PhD in Classics from University College London. She is the author of 'Cave Canem: A Miscellany of Latin Words and Phrases' and the essay 'The Golden Age in Metamorphoses' and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' in 'A Companion to Magical Realism' (Tamesis, 2005).

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Gabriel García Márquez and Ovid

Magical and Monstrous Realities

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-16

1 - Telling Tales
pp 17-60

2 - Points of View
pp 61-85

3 - Fertile Ground
pp 86-126

4 - More than Words Can Say
pp 127-161

Conclusion
pp 162-168

Bibliography
pp 169-182

Index
pp 183-188

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