Gabriel García Márquez Summary

Biography EssayThe work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez owes much of its popularity to the seemingly easy access it offers to readers and to the way it departs from the highly intellectualized, self-reflect... Read more

Nobel Prize-winning, Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has influenced an entire generation of writers around the world. Popularizing the genre of magic realism, García M&aac... Read more

The work of Gabriel García Márquez owes much of its popularity to the seemingly easy access it offers to readers and to the way it departs from the highly intellectualized, self-reflecti... Read more

In the following essay, Olsen focuses on the narrative frustration commented upon by many critics of García Márquez's work, noting that the uncertainty and nebulous nature of the ... Read more

In the following essay, Buehrer discusses Love in the Time of Cholera as a postmodern novel that utilizes a traditional thematic structure. On a day like today, my master William Faulkner said in t... Read more

In the following review, Rodman commends García Márquez's balanced portrait of Símon Bolívar in The General in His Labyrinth. A visitor once suggested to Gabriel ... Read more

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... Read more

In the following review, Siemens investigates the techniques that García Márquez uses to demythologize Simón Bolívar in The General in His Labyrinth. A common phenomenon... Read more

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... Read more

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 Hundre... Read more

In the following essay, Kooreman illustrates “how the Colonel's language and intuition reflect a poetic view of his environment” in No One Writes to the Colonel. A close readin... Read more

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 ... Read more

In the following review, Hopkinson evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Strange Pilgrims. “I saw him only once in Boccacio, the popular Barcelona club, a few hours before his miserable ... Read more

In the following essay, Rincón discusses the roles that Jorge Luis Borges and García Márquez hold as South American postmodern authors. Recently, Peter Buerger tried, like Luk&... Read more

In the following review, Bayley explores the major thematic concerns of the stories in Strange Pilgrims. Films can more easily be truly international than modern novels. A film's appeal is l... Read more

In the following essay, Jones addresses García Márquez's perspective on male-female relationships in Love in the Time of Cholera. A number of critics have noted what Verity Smi... Read more

In the following review, Hood contends that although Of Love and Other Demons is well-written and interesting, “it is less complex and engrossing than many of García Márquez... Read more

In the following review, Kerrigan delineates the major thematic concerns of Of Love and Other Demons. In the sanctuary of the Bishop's library, a young priest attempts briefly to read, prays... Read more

In the following review, Bemrose criticizes Of Love and Other Demons, faulting García Márquez's prose as overwrought and rigid. Long before he wrote One Hundred Years of Solitu... Read more

In the following review, Butt praises García Márquez's journalistic excellence in News of a Kidnapping. On the evening of November 7, 1990, the car carrying Maruja Pachó... Read more

In the following review, Hensher praises News of a Kidnapping, complimenting García Márquez for “giving the reader exactly the right details and leading him through a complicated ... Read more

In the following review, Saunders examines García Márquez's portrayal of true-life details in News of a Kidnapping, arguing that the work transcends both reportage and fiction. ... Read more

In the following positive review of News of a Kidnapping, Lane provides biographical background on García Márquez, his ideological development, and the political situation in Colombia. ... Read more

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 rende... Read more

In the following review, Deas offers a negative assessment of News of a Kidnapping. The Hispanic world is particularly reverential towards its writers, perhaps because, through the vagaries of worl... Read more

In the following essay, Cohn explores García Márquez's treatment of linear time in Leaf Storm and notes the influence of William Faulkner, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf on the n... Read more

In the following essay, Matos considers the recurring motif of animals and animalistic behavior in Of Love and Other Demons. In Gabriel García Márquez's Of Love and Other Demon... Read more

Critical Essay by Kessel Schwartz García Márquez' mysterious caudillo, perhaps a composite or a specific individual like Juan Vicente Gómez, symbolizes the abuse of power ... Read more

Critical Essay by John Sturrock Since ["One Hundred Years of Solitude"] and since its successor, "The Autumn of the Patriarch,"… García Márquez has fe... Read more

Critical Essay by William Boyd Marquez's style (unlike Borges, who has been influenced by writers as diverse as Poe, Stevenson and Carlyle) is perhaps more what the European would expect from ... Read more

Critical Essay by Gene H. Bell-villada García Márquez is a rare instance of the sort of writer often daydreamed about by modern booklovers and literati—an artistically serious, t... Read more

Critical Essay by George R. Mcmurray At a time of dire predictions about the future of the novel, García Márquez's prodigious imagination, remarkable compositional precision, and... Read more

Critical Essay by Bill Buford Gabriel García Márquez has repeatedly expressed his surprise at being so insistently regarded as a writer of fantastic fiction. That exotic or "magi... Read more