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