Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect

A Collection

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel laureate’s cultural contexts and influences, his variety of themes, and his formidable legacy (Hispanic, U.S., world-wide) all come up for consideration. New readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude are further complemented by fresh, stimulating, highly detailed examinations of his later novels (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Of Love and Other Demons) and stories (Strange Pilgrims). Further attention is focused on “Gabo’s” labors as journalist and as memoirist (Living to Tell the Tale), and to his sometime relationships with the cinema and the stage. Reactions to his enormous stature on the part of younger writers, including recent signs of backlash, are also given thoughtful scrutiny. Feminist and ecocritical interpretations, plus lively discussions of Gabo’s artful use of humor, character’s names, and even cuisine, are to be found here as well. In the wake of García Márquez’s passing away in 2014, this collection of essays serves as a fitting tribute to one of the world’s greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-05-11
Mått151 x 221 x 19 mm
Vikt467 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498533409

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Introduction. García Márquez: His Vast Range, His Varied LegacyGene H. Bell-VilladaPart One. Oeuvre, Backgrounds, Legacy1. García Márquez: Writer for the WorldNicholas Birns and Juan De Castro2. Politics and Death across the Life of WritingRegina Janes3. Translation and ApprenticeshipEdith Grossman4. García Márquez and mamagallismo: On Fatigued Roosters, Resistance, Sense of Humor, and the Colombian PersonalityMarcela VelascoPart Two. Re-reading the History of Macondo5. Names and Narrative Pattern in One Hundred Years of SolitudeGene H. Bell-Villada6. The Enlightened Blindness of Úrsula IguaránMaría del Mar López-Cabrales7. Satire, Ecocentrism, and Luddite Discourse in One Hundred Years of Solitude: Regional Approaches for a Global Environmental CrisisWilliam Flores8. Rediscovering Ice: García Márquez, Aira, and Vallejo on Childhood MemoriesHéctor HoyosPart Three. Later Works9. After the End: Bolívar in the Labyrinth of HistoryMichael Wood10. The Magic of Love, the

[T]he best homage to a great author is to imagine ways to read his work anew. Gene Bell-Villada’s timely selection of essays does exactly that: it sheds new light on a multifaceted writer that still manages to stimulate the critical imagination of readers from around the world. . . . Among its many virtues, this book reminds us that García Márquez embodied a unique pleasure in the act of writing. Most of the collection’s papers share this “joie d’ecrire,” as they combine rigor, poetry, and a dose of playful wit that suits the analysis of a lyrical mamagallista like Gabo. Among them, Bell-Villada’s own good-humored introduction is unparalleled. This tone allows many of the texts to both celebrate the writer and deal with him in an intellectually nuanced way that, instead of solidifying the icy statue of the canonic author, brings a renewed warmth to his work and makes him, once again, our contemporary.