Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Topics for Discussion & Projects

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Topics for Discussion

1. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the narrator tells the story from a first-person omniscient point of view. Study the various literary points of view and explain why this is an unusual technique.

2. Critics have called Garcia Marquez a master of the magical realism literary genre. What is magical realism? Where and how did it originate? Compare and contrast this Latin American genre with other genres or styles, such as science fiction/fantasy or prose poetry.