Gabriel García Marquez

Informationen zum Autor Jay Corwin is Head of the Spanish programme at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Klappentext Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay Corwin discusses both European and US-centric interpretations, balancing these with indigenous and Hispanic contexts to give the reader an overarching understanding of the global reception of García Márquez's work. Zusammenfassung This Readers Guide offers a lively and accessible introduction to the essential criticism surrounding the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Jay Corwin explores major critical responses to Marquez's key works, from early and short fiction, to One Hundred Years of Solitude, through to Of Love and Other Demons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Early Fiction and Short Fiction 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude I 3. One Hundred Years of Solitude II 4. Autumn of the Patriarch and The General in his Labyrinth 5. Chronicle of a Death Foretold 6. Love in the Time of Cholera and Of Love and Other Demons Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

Riassunto

This Readers Guide offers a lively and accessible introduction to the essential criticism surrounding the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Jay Corwin explores major critical responses to Marquez's key works, from early and short fiction, to One Hundred Years of Solitude, through to Of Love and Other Demons.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jay Corwin, Corwin Jay
• Con la collaborazione di: Jay Corwin (Editore)
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781137513366
• ISBN: 978-1-137-51336-6
• Pagine: 168
• Serie: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential C
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; B, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, access;America;bibliography;death;fiction;love;time, access; America; bibliography; death; fiction; love; time