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From: Latin American Literary Review1. Mircea Eliade begins Cosmos and Chaos, his study of archaic ontology, with a discussion of archetypes and repetition. Premodern societies, he claims, validate their own world and experience by seeing them as...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 2. )García Márquez often wryly denies that his works are magical, fantastic, or surrealistic: "It always amuses me that the highest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single...
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From: Gabriel García Márquez: Writer of Colombia[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Minta describes Love in the Time of Cholera as a conscious application and exaggeration of "'bad' romantic fiction" that is nonetheless successful.] For a long time before the...
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From: Publications of the Modern Language Association[(essay date October 1992) In the following essay, Aizenberg addresses the differences between actual history and common beliefs, and discusses the concept of embellished history in historical novels by Gabriel García...
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From: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date summer 1993) In the following essay, Booker asserts that Love in the Time of Cholera is a more complex book than most critical readings suggest and links the novel with Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and...
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From: Chicago Tribune Books[(review date 10 August 1997) In the following review of News of a Kidnapping, Levi commends García Márquez's gripping portrayal of a series of abductions carried out in Bogotá in 1990.] A few winters ago, I had lunch...
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From: Siglo XX/20th Century[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Baker explores the role of time and paradox in García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in representing the multilayered reality of colonized people and places....
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From: New York Review of Books[(review date 11 October 1990) In the following review, Adams praises the elegiac language of The General in His Labyrinth, contrasting the work with the fiction of Mario Vargas Llosa.] Some years ago a society of...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date December 1997) In the following essay, Hoeg addresses the relationship between technology, science, and society in Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and the works of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez.]...
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From: The New RepublicFrequently the history of literature (or the history of human gullibility) spews up a novel that becomes an “intellectual bestseller”—a book that all persons with literary or intellectual pretensions feel obliged to...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date winter 1991) In the following essay, Palencia-Roth examines the dominant thematic concerns in Love in the Time of Cholera and The General in His Labyrinth, concluding that "taken together, these two most...
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From: Latin American Literary Review1. Mircea Eliade begins Cosmos and Chaos, his study of archaic ontology, with a discussion of archetypes and repetition. Premodern societies, he claims, validate their own world and experience by seeing them as...
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From: Studies in Contemporary Satire[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Clark provides a critical interpretation of the conclusion of One Hundred Years of Solitude.] --it shall pass, however, for wondrous Deep, upon no wiser a...
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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date summer 1991) In the following essay, de Carvalho argues that the short story "The Night of the Curlews" is a turning point in García Márquez's literary development.] At the end of 1949, the Colombian...
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From: Gabriel García MárquezAt a time of dire predictions about the future of the novel, García Márquez's prodigious imagination, remarkable compositional precision, and wide popularity provide evidence that the genre is still thriving. Although...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 26 September 1997) In the following review, Page criticizes News of a Kidnapping, asserting that "perhaps the most glaring weakness of the book is its failure to put these events in a perspective that would...
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From: Multicultural Literatures Through Feminist/Poststructuralist Lenses[(essay date 1993) In the essay below, Hart examines what she terms "feminocentric magic realism" in The Stories of Eva Luna, focusing on Allende's handling of such issues as prostitution and rape.] Magic used to show...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 9 November 1990) In the following unfavorable review, Siegel argues that, despite García Márquez's skillful prose, The General in His Labyrinth is still a disappointing and unoriginal work.] Few writers...
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From: CLIO[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Landau contrasts the use of metafiction as a rhetorical device in Hegel's history of "Absolute Spirit" and García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.] "Metafiction" has...
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From: Latin American Literary Review[In the following excerpt, Antoni examines the similarities and differences between Allende's The House of Spirits and Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude.] While the first few sentences of The...