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| Record 61 of 108 |
| | Author | | Robinson, Lorna
| | | Title | | "Latin America and Magical Realism: The Insomnia Plague in Cien años de soledad," Neophilologus
| | | Publisher | | Kluwer Academic Publishers | | | Publication place | | Dordrecht, Holland | | | Publication year | | April 2006 | | | Page | | 249-69 | | | Volume | | 90 | | | Issue | | 2 | | | Notes | | "Communities of people have different ways of explaining the world around them and events that occur to them, and these codes for interpreting reality can clash when brought into contact with each other. Latin American writers and scholars have often said that such a clash produces the atmosphere we have come to label magical realist in literature; construing the theory in quite territorial terms, they have claimed that the specific circumstances of Latin America have produced magical realism. In this essay, I explore the use if magical realism in a famous episode from García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad'. The instance of the insomnia plague has fascinated readers and has attracted various interpretations from academics; these have usually been centered around cultural readings. I explore the passage from three distinct perspectives, cultural, historical and literary. García Márquez's 'Cien años de soledad' is a work rich in historical and literary sources, and in order to help determine the impact of political and cultural happenings upon his work, I have also referred extensively to García Márquez's recently published memoirs, which have enabled me to make reasoned judgments about the different spheres of influence upon García Márquez's work." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 62 of 108 |
| | Author | | Barrére, Bernard
| | | Title | | "Les greffes du roman populaire sur la vieille souche de Macondo," Bulletin hispanique
| | | Publisher | | Editions Biére | | | Publication place | | Bordeaux, France | | | Publication year | | (December 2002) | | | Page | | pp. 987-1018 | | | Volume | | 104 | | | Issue | | 2 | | | Notes | | "After some theorical remarks, the brending of popular motifs with the themes of a pseudo-bourgeois model about 'l'amour fou,' is analysed from various points of view (characters, time and structure, themes and places). Then, the article deals with the interweaving of new elements into the narrative (cinema, songs from hispanic countriesradio-brodcasted novels, surrealistic heroes), through the mixing of blood and genres, might not the author be claiming thereby his own half-cast nature in a novel about crossbreeding?" -- English translation of French abstract found in the article. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 63 of 108 |
| | Author | | Luiselli, Alessandra
| | | Title | | "Los demonios en torno a la cama del rey: Pederastia e incesto en Memorias de mis putas tristes de Gabriel García Máruqez." Espéculo: Revista de Estudios Literarios
| | | Publisher | | Universidad de Complutense de Madrid | | | Publication place | | Madrid, Spain | | | Publication year | | March-June 2006 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | 32 | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | This essay discusses pederasty and incest in Gabriel García Márquez's "Memorias de mis putas tristes." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 64 of 108 |
| | Author | | Steenmeijer, Maarten
| | | Title | | "Los dos columnismos de Gabriel García Márquez," Insula
| | | Publisher | | Insula, Librería, Ediciones y Publicaciones, S.A | | | Publication place | | Madrid, Spain | | | Publication year | | July-August 2005 | | | Page | | pp. 37-40 | | | Volume | | 60 | | | Issue | | 703-704 | | | Notes | | | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 65 of 108 |
| | Author | | Murov, Maureen McKenna
| | | Title | | "Los dos cuerpos del dictador: el poder del doble en dos novels canónicas del dictador," Hispanic Journal
| | | Publisher | | Indiana University of Pennsylvania | | | Publication place | | Indiana, PA | | | Publication year | | (Spring 2002) | | | Page | | pp. 11-20 | | | Volume | | 23 | | | Issue | | 1 | | | Notes | | "Las novelas de Gabriel García Márquez y Augusto Roa Bastos abarcan temas grandes y variados. Con fecuencia sus obras se enfrentan con historias tanto nacionales como continentales, historias latinoamericanas que residen entre el mito y el archivo. 'El otoño del patriarca' (1975) y 'Yo el Supremo' (1974) son novelas del dictador que juegan con el concepto del poder, tratando el poder desde el lado de la impotencia o, másprecisamente, desde el lado de la muerte. En realidad, la muestra de la doble cara del poder es solamente uno de los desdoblamientos que sirve de base estructural y temática de estas dos obras en las que cada elemento se transforma en su contrario: la vida en la muerte, la muerte en la vida, el gran ditador en ser miserable y solitario, y el héroe en traidor. Cada una de las dos obras ocupa el lugar entre dos muertes, y es interesante notar también que cada dictador tiene su doble--o dobles. Es como si el dictador tuviera dos cuerpos, uno natural y sujeto a las leyes de la biología y otro de otra sustancia, quizás sublime o sobrenatural, que perduraría en el tiempo, o por lo menos dentro de los límites de la narrativa. En este ensayo propongo explorar a fondo las relaciones entre el cuerpo y el poder del dictador." (From article) | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 66 of 108 |
| | Author | | Avaria de Wilson, Carmen
| | | Title | | "Macondo: espacio para el mito," Taller de Letras
| | | Publisher | | Editorial Universidad Católica | | | Publication place | | Santiago de Chile, Chile | | | Publication year | | May 2002 | | | Page | | p66 | | | Volume | | 30 | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "El presente trabajo es parte del Seminario de Graduación del Depto. de Castellano en esta Universidad titulado 'Cien años de soledad, una novela mítica'. El seminario fue dirigido por la Prof. Adriana Valdés y en él participaron las siguientes alumnas: Sara Almarza, Inés Araya, Carmen Foxley, M. Elena Rodríguez, M. Isabel Spoerer, Marta Ulfe y Carmen Avaria." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 67 of 108 |
| | Author | | Runyon, Carl R.
| | | Title | | "Marquez
| | | Publisher | | HELDREF Publications | | | Publication place | | Washington, DC | | | Publication year | | Winter 2005 | | | Page | | 105 | | | Volume | | 65 | | | Issue | | 2 | | | Notes | | "When reciting the many qualities of Gabriel García Márquez's writing, critics invariably include his humor. Unfortunately, when readers have to read works in translation, they often miss much of the richness of the original work, including the humor. However, Gregory Rabassa's English translation of García Márquez still provides many linguistic pleasures, not the least of which is the discovery of symbolic repetitions and of the multilayered references submerged within an apparently simple sentence-particularly those that begin the different chapters. Indeed, this joy of discovery often erupts in outright guffawing when we realize that the devilish author frequently turns the references ironically on our expectations and even, on occasion, deliberately misleads us." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 68 of 108 |
| | Author | | Earle, Peter G
| | | Title | | "Memoria e Imaginación en Hispanoamérica," Revista Hispánica Moderna
| | | Publisher | | Casa de las Españas, Columbia University | | | Publication place | | New York, NY | | | Publication year | | June-December 2005 | | | Page | | pp. 175-184 | | | Volume | | 58 | | | Issue | | 1/2 | | | Notes | | Earle studies the role of memory and imagination in Latin American nations. He focuses many influential and cultural factors including the works of Gabriel García Márquez. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 69 of 108 |
| | Author | | Vega-González, Susana
| | | Title | | "Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon," CLCWeb: Comparative Literature
| | | Publisher | | | | | Publication place | | web journal | | | Publication year | | March 2001 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | 3 | | | Issue | | 1 | | | Notes | | "In her article, 'Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Song of Solomon,' Susana Vega-González explores similarities between the novels of García Márquez and Morrison with a special focus on the use of memory and imagination. Based on theoretical models, Vega-González proposes that fictional representations are a means of rewriting history, a particular aspect of literary discourse. The texts under scrutiny constitute true quest stories of characters who search for their family history along their own identity amidst the dangers of capitalism and its excessive desire for progress and class ascent. The break with advocacy of hybridity are some of the features that link Morrison and García Márquez with magical realism, a literary mode that contributes to their rewriting of a history peopled with the ghosts of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 70 of 108 |
| | Author | | Friedman, Mary Lusky
| | | Title | | "Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico para Chile/ Dancing with Cuba: a Memoir of the Revolution," Chasqui
| | | Publisher | | University of Georgia | | | Publication place | | Swarthmore, Pa. | | | Publication year | | May 2005 | | | Page | | pp. 161-164 | | | Volume | | 34 | | | Issue | | 1 | | | Notes | | Mary Lusky Friedman discusses the Memoirs of Isabel Allende and Alma Guillermoprieto. She compares and contrasts the works of these prominent writers to those of the Boom writers, including Gabriel García Márquez. | | | URL | | | |
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