First Garcia M-rquez

This book studies in five chapters the continuous interaction of GarcÌa M·rquez's journalism and fiction since the inception of his writing career. The author brings fresh insights to the literature and M·rquez by concentrating on two critical methods: textual, following the ideas of Gerard Genette, and transtextual, following the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin of translinguistics. Contents: GarcÌa M·rquez and Bigeneric Writing; Journalistic Peregrinations I; Journalistic Peregrinations II; Journalistic Peregrinations III; GarcÌa M·rquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor; GarcÌa M·rquez's Series on La Sierpe.