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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a fabulist, a sorcerer with language whose surprising and potent imagery and characters impel the reader from one story to another in this collection that spans 1947 to 1972. One of the benefits of this collection is that the reader sees the development and maturation of a most amazing literary talent from his earliest days to his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Garcia Marquez' earliest stories are strange metaphysical creations that seem to occupy a place somewhere between the living and the dead, where time is relative and past, present and future coexist. The influence of Edgar Allan Poe is apparent in stories that concern death, decay and transfiguration. Except that Garcia Marquez, unlike Poe, has access to modern theories of physics and notions of time/space that the melancholy Richmonder lacked. Garcia Marques artfully exploits some of these ideas in his early...
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