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...
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Gabriel García Márquez (born 1928) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose works earned him the reputation of being the greatest living writer of Castilian in ...
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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...
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1928. Born in Aracataca, Colombia. "... Everyone knows that I was born with the umbilical cord tangled around my neck almost strangling me. This was the origin of my terrible claustrophobia."1"... I h...
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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...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Moraña provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Love in the Time of Cholera.
The brilliant and complex prose of Gabriel García Márquez has still not b...
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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 this...
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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 malcontents plante...
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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 Gar...
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In the following review, Bierman offers a positive assessment of The General in His Labyrinth, noting that “García Márquez has painted a memorable picture of greatness in decay, b...
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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 wr...
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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 re...
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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 of...
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In the following review, Williamson lauds the poetic narrative and accomplished storytelling in The General in His Labyrinth.
In The General in His Labyrinth Gabriel García Márquez displ...
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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...
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In the following review of Collected Stories, Wood delineates the differences between García Márquez's short fiction and his novels.
Walter Benjamin distinguished between stories ...
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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...
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In the following essay, Mejía examines the relationship between the dictator and populace as portrayed in The Autumn of the Patriarch.
Of course, there is no need of a signifier to be a father,...
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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 reading o...
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In the following essay, Christie examines the work of William Faulkner in order to expound on García Márquez's various allusions in Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
It might seem ri...
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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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In the following review, Sturrock offers a negative assessment of Strange Pilgrims, arguing that the collection is comprised of “facile stories, too easy on the mind, soft-centred and poorly fo...
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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 dea...
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In the following review, Hood praises the stylistic and thematic unity of the stories in Strange Pilgrims.
The interesting and innovative stories of his new collection [Doce cuentos peregrinos] comple...
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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�...
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In the following review, Sonenclar unfavorably compares García Márquez's short fiction to his novels, arguing that some of the stories in Strange Pilgrims are trite and hackneyed....
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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 less...
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In the following review, Theroux praises the stories in Strange Pilgrims, calling the work “a rich and wonderful collection.”
These twelve tales [in Strange Pilgrims] set in contemporary...
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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 Smith ...
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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, ...
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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...
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In the following essay, Penuel discusses how “El rastro de tu sangre en la nieve” utilizes various elements of the fairy tale genre.
Like most of García Márquez' sto...
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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 fo...
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In the following review, Gould offers a positive assessment of Of Love and Other Demons.
A novel by Márquez is generally a rich confection, and this one is no exception [Of Love and Other Demon...
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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 Solitude ...
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In the following excerpt, Dinnage asserts that Of Love and Other Demons is “an ambitious book, different from and darker than anything García Márquez has written before.”
G...
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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 Pachón a...
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In the following mixed review, Massing argues that News of a Kidnapping is a cogent and powerful account of the impact of drug trafficking on García Márquez's native Colombia.
Ove...
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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 ...
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In the following review, Butt evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of News of a Kidnapping.
The Spanish original of this book [News of a Kidnapping] was warmly praised by me in the TLS of October 4,...
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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.
Be...
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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 ag...
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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.
I...
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In the following review, Bemrose derides García Márquez's lack of analysis as well as his focus on upper-class characters in News of a Kidnapping, but notes that the book is still...
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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...
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In the following favorable review, Reid offers a stylistic analysis of News of a Kidnapping and expounds on the events that inspired the book.
In late February of this year, just as Colombia was prepa...
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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 world h...
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In the following essay, Irvine discusses One Hundred Years of Solitude as a work of magical realism and places the novel within the context of Latin American postmodernism and postcolonialism.
Akin to...
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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...
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In the following essay, Spiller examines the “mythic and historical” aspects of One Hundred Years of Solitude, arguing that the novel “emerges out of a Renaissance genre which use...
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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 Demons, ...
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In the following review, Belli praises Vivir para contarla, noting that, for Latin Americans, “being able to read García Márquez … without intermediaries is one privilege w...
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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 a...
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Critical Essay by Ronald De Feo
Though he is one of the wittiest and most exhilarating of contemporary Latin American writers, García Márquez has repeatedly created characters who live, ...
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Critical Essay by John Sturrock
Since ["One Hundred Years of Solitude"] and since its successor, "The Autumn of the Patriarch,"… García Márquez has fel...
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Critical Essay by Blake Morrison
Garcia Marquez has been translated into so many different languages, and acclaimed for so many different reasons, that any generalisation about the secret of his succe...
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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 L...
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Critical Essay by Robert Coover
[In] 1979, nearly a quarter of a century after its conception, "In Evil Hour" appears at last in English, thereby filling in the last significant gap in t...
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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, te...
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Critical Essay by Michael Wood
In Evil Hour, begun in 1956, abandoned for a while, then finished in 1961, is a novel which belongs to the period of García Márquez's idolatry of th...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Salman Rushdie
[The opening sentence of Rushdie's essay purposely imitates García Márquez's writing style.]
We had suspected for a long time that the man ...
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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 "magic...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Epstein
How good is Gabriel García Márquez? "Define your terms," I can hear some wise undergraduate reply. "What do you mean by is?" ...
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel (Jose) Garcia Marquez
