Claudette Kemper Columbus, "The Heir Must Die One Hundred Years of Solitude as a Gothic Novel," in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, Autumn 1986, pp 397-416. Explores Garcia Marquez's novel for its gothic aspects and compares it to Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
William Faulkner, The Portable Faulkner, edited by Malcolm Cowley, Viking Press, 1977
This volume presents the entire legend of Yoknapatawpha. The creation of this fictional place is not unlike the creation of Macondo by Garcia Marquez and the two are often compared. It is said that Garcia Marquez read Hemingway as an antidote to Faulkner.
Jean Franco, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez," in his An Introduction to Spanish American Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1969, pp. 343-347.
Franco offers a brief but worthwhile overview of Garcia Marquez's.....
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