"Shoot me," he said, with his hand on his chest. "There is no greater glory than to die for love" (Marquez)
Groupthink is an extension of family acculturation in both Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Kafka's "Metamorphisis." Vicario "was the prettiest" of her four sisters, claims the narrator (Marquez p
But what of the authors who tend to combine both genres -- those who are slightly anti-establishment, allow for deep contextual symbolism, but also find wonder in the everyday? Fortunately, that genre, and the combination of realism and postmodernism, has blossomed globally into a genre called magical realism. The term was actually used in 1925 by a German art critic who was commenting on a certain post-World War I style called "New Objectivity," later to be called lo real maravillosos (marvelous reality) in the prologue to a 1949 Carpentier novel called "The Kingdom of this World" (Abrams, 2004, 195)
These poor but intellectually hungry individuals would meet at the local cafes to read and discuss world politics and great writers. It was here that Gabriel became acquainted with a number of authors who were to prove extremely influential to his life and later style: Hemingway, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Joyce, and even Joseph Conrad (Bell-Villada, ed
While his stories have taken on a darker hue, the 2008 Memoria de mis putas tristes (Memories of My Melancholy Whores) especially, he was purported to be working on a new novel. However, in April of 2009 his agent reported to the South American press that Marquez was unlikely to write again (Hamilos, 2009)
His grandfather, on the other hand, was full of tales of past military might and nostalgia. The combination was to prove seminal for Marquez (Martin, 2009, 3-58)
Literary realism, of course, focuses on the everyday cultural experience of everyday people who may, within their banal experience, do extraordinary things. The Postmodern movement, as a reaction to a number of 20th century trends, tends to be anti-establishment and looks for meanings hidden in the text, those meanings needing to be exposed and reflected through deconstructing that text (Perkins & Perkins, 2008)
His importance to the literary world is untenable, and his inclusion in the literary canon of influential writers of the late twentieth century should be a foregone conclusion. "No one can deny that Garcia Marquez has helped rejuvenate, reformulate, and decontextualized literatyre and criticism in Colombia and the rest of Latin America" (Sims, 1994)
Marquez is a Nobel laureate as well as master of Magical Realism and is reported to be "one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed contemporary authors in the world today." (Sickles, nd, p
A historian writes, "To narrate the civil wars would be impossible. A Colombian writer, Holguin, reckons twenty-seven; Haring counts 'ten civil wars which were national in scope'; the Colombian historians Henao and Arrubla emphasize five" (Kirkpatrick 254)
His best acclaimed novels were "Love in the Time of Cholera written in 1985, One Hundred Years of Solitude written in 1967 and The Autumn of the Patriarch written in 1975." (Bell-Villada, 2002 p 6)
However, Pascal Cotte, French engineer carried out an ultra-high resolution scans in 2007 and affirmed that there was an evidence of eyelashes and visible eyebrows in the original portrait, however, the eyelashes disappeared because of over-cleaning. (Holt, 2007)