Gerald Martin

The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A concise, comprehensive and original introduction to the fiction and journalism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780521719926
• ISBN-10: 0521719925
• Artikelnr.: 34884253

Autorenporträt

Gerald Martin is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

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 neo-realist turn: No One Writes to the Colonel, In Evil Hour 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 Kidnapping (1996)
9. More about love: Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004)
10. A memoir: Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Conclusion: the achievement of the universal Colombian.