Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on the translations
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Characterization in the early fiction of Gabriel García Márquez
- 2 Beware of gift-bearing tales: reading ‘Baltazar's Prodigious Afternoon’ according to Marcel Mauss
- 3 The body as political instrument: communication in No One Writes to the Colonel
- 4 Magical realism and the theme of incest in One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 5 Translation and genealogy: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 6 The humour of One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 7 On ‘magical’ and social realism in García Márquez
- 8 Aspects of narrative structure in The Incredible and Sad Story of the Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless Grandmother
- 9 Language and power in The Autumn of the Patriarch
- 10 Writing and ritual in Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- 11 Free-play of fore-play: the fiction of non-consummation: speculations on Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- 12 A prospective post-script : apropos of Love in the Times of Cholera
- The solitude of Latin America: Nobel address 1982
- Select bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on the translations
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Characterization in the early fiction of Gabriel García Márquez
- 2 Beware of gift-bearing tales: reading ‘Baltazar's Prodigious Afternoon’ according to Marcel Mauss
- 3 The body as political instrument: communication in No One Writes to the Colonel
- 4 Magical realism and the theme of incest in One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 5 Translation and genealogy: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 6 The humour of One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 7 On ‘magical’ and social realism in García Márquez
- 8 Aspects of narrative structure in The Incredible and Sad Story of the Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless Grandmother
- 9 Language and power in The Autumn of the Patriarch
- 10 Writing and ritual in Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- 11 Free-play of fore-play: the fiction of non-consummation: speculations on Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- 12 A prospective post-script : apropos of Love in the Times of Cholera
- The solitude of Latin America: Nobel address 1982
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Gabriel García MárquezNew Readings, pp. 225 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987