Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Informationen zum Autor Gerald Martin is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Zusammenfassung Aimed at students of Latin American and comparative literature! this book provides essential information about his life! career! published work in literature and journalism and his political engagement. It relates the fiction effectively to the writer's own experience and his achievements to his enduring importance in world literature. 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.

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• Authors: Gerald Martin, Gerald (University of Pittsburgh) Martin, Gerald S. Martin, Grard Martin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9780521719926
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71992-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American