Gabriel García Márquez : new readings / edited by Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGuirk, Bernard.

Cardwell, Richard Andrew, 1938-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge Iberian and Latin American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014--Criticism and interpretation.

García Márquez, Gabriel.

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014.

Criticism and interpretation.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Summary:

This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.

Contents:

Characterization in the early fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Richard Cardwell

Beware of gift-bearing tales : reading 'Baltazar's prodigious afternoon' according to Marcel Mauss / Eduardo Gonzalez

The body as political instrument : communication in No one writes to the colonel / Rene Prieto

Magical realism and the theme of incest in One hundred years of solitude / Edwin Williamson

Translation and genealogy : One hundred years of solitude / Anibal Gonzalez

The humour of One hundred years of solitude / Clive Griffin

On 'magical' and social realism in Garcia Marquez / Gerald Martin

Aspects of narrative structure in The incredible and sad story of the innocent Erendira and her heartless grandmother / Mark Millington

Language and power in The autumn of the patriarch / Jo Labanyi

Writing and ritual in Chronicle of a death foretold / Carlos Alonso

Free-play of fore-play : the fiction of non-consummation : speculations on Chronicle of a death foretold / Bernard McGuirk

A prospective post-script : apropos of Love in the times of Cholera / Robin Fiddian

The solitude of Latin America : Nobel address 1982 / Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Richard Cardwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224) and index.

ISBN:

0521328365

9780521328364

0521122821

9780521122825

OCLC:

14242756

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