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Together with the late Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate, stands at the pinnacle of Latin American literature. His work, in the words of Julio Ortega, "contains its own 'deconstructive' force-a literary power capable of reshaping natural order and rhetorical tradition in order to 'carnivalize' the Borges' library and allow us to hear the voices-and the laughter-of a culture, that of Latin America." This reshaping force invites us to read the works of Garcia Marquez in a new way, one that bypasses the traditional, inadequate approaches through Latin American politics, history, and "magical realism." In Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction, noted scholars Julio Ortega, Ricardo Gutierrez Mouat, Michael Palencia-Roth, Anibal Gonzalez, and Gonzalo Diaz-Migoyo offer English-speaking readers a new approach to Garcia Marquez's work.
Their poststructuralist readings focus on the peculiar sign-system, formal configuration, intradiscursivity, and unfolding representation in the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude, No One Writes to the Colonel, In Evil Hour, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold and in several of the author's short stories. Also included as an appendix is a translation of Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, "The Solitude of Latin America."
Together with the late Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the 1982 Nobel laureate, stands at the pinnacle of Latin American literature. His work, in the words of Julio Ortega, "contains its own 'deconstructive' force-a literary power capable of reshaping natural order and rhetorical tradition in order to 'carnivalize' the Borges' library and allow us to hear the voices-and the laughter-of a culture, that of Latin America." This reshaping force invites us to read the works of Garcia Marquez in a new way, one that bypasses the traditional, inadequate approaches through Latin American politics, history, and "magical realism." In Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction, noted scholars Julio Ortega, Ricardo Gutierrez Mouat, Michael Palencia-Roth, Anibal Gonzalez, and Gonzalo Diaz-Migoyo offer English-speaking readers a new approach to Garcia Marquez's work.
Their poststructuralist readings focus on the peculiar sign-system, formal configuration, intradiscursivity, and unfolding representation in the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude, No One Writes to the Colonel, In Evil Hour, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold and in several of the author's short stories. Also included as an appendix is a translation of Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, "The Solitude of Latin America."
Acknowledgments Julio Ortega. Exchange System in One Hundred Years of Solitude Ricardo Gutierrez Mouat. The Economy of the Narrative Sign in No One Writes to the Colonel and In Evil Hour Michael Palencia-Roth. Intertextualities: Three Metamorphoses of Myth in The Autumn of the Patriarch Anibal Gonzalez. The Ends of the Text: Journalism in the Fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gonzalo Diaz-Migoyo. Truth Disguised: Chronicle of a Death (Ambiguously) Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Solitude of Latin America (Nobel Lecture, 1982) Contributors Index
Julio Ortega has been called "Peru's leading literary intellectual" (American Book Review). He is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University and has published many works of his own fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as numerous critical editions and works of literary criticism.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction signifies a veritable tour de force on the part of the editor, his collaborators, and translator ... In the final analysis, these exemplary essays open the door to new vistas in contemporary research and scholarship in Spanish America.
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