Screen LibraryThe Cambridge introduction to Gabriel García Márquez /
"The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, García Márquez has one of literature's most instantly...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge introductions to literature
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"The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, García Márquez has one of literature's most instantly recognizable styles and since the beginning of his career has explored a consistent set of themes, revolving around the relationship between power and love. His novels exemplify the transition between modernist and post-modernist fiction and have made magical realism one of the most significant and |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 170 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-164) and index. |
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9780521719926 0521719925 9780521895613 0521895618 |
| Index Number: | PQ8180 |
| CLC: | I775.065 |
| Call Number: | I775.065/M381 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1. The life and work in historical context -- 2. Early short stories, journalism and the first (modernist) novel, Leaf Storm (1947-1955) -- 3. The neorealist turn: In Evil Hour, No One Writes to the Colonel and Big Mama's Funeral (1956-1962) -- 4. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967): the global village -- 5. The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975): the love of power -- 6. Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981): postmodernism and Hispanic literature -- 7. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985): the power of love -- 8. More about power: The General in His Labyrinth (1989) and News of a K |