{"product_id":"gabriel-garcia-marquez-in-retrospect-9781498533386","title":"Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGabriel 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 g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGene Bell-Villada's new collection of essays provides much for general readers, students and specialists alike, who are offered an array of critical approaches with which to spar, ranging from the contextual, biographical, literary and literary-historical to the ecocritical, demythifying and on occasion densely theoretical. Particularly welcome is the volume's emphasis on García Márquez's later writing. -- Clive Griffin, Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003eThis exemplary collection of essays is illuminating, ample, accessible, and ultimately essential for understanding how García Márquez is read today. -- Randolph D. Pope, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. García Márquez: His Vast Range, His Varied Legacy Gene H. Bell-Villada Part One. Oeuvre, Backgrounds, Legacy 1. García Márquez: Writer for the World Nicholas Birns and Juan De Castro 2. Politics and Death across the Life of Writing Regina Janes 3. Translation and Apprenticeship Edith Grossman 4. García Márquez and mamagallismo: On Fatigued Roosters, Resistance, Sense of Humor, and the Colombian Personality Marcela Velasco Part Two. Re-reading the History of Macondo 5. Names and Narrative Pattern in One Hundred Years of Solitude Gene H. Bell-Villada 6. The Enlightened Blindness of Úrsula Iguarán María del Mar López-Cabrales 7. Satire, Ecocentrism, and Luddite Discourse in One Hundred Years of Solitude: Regional Approaches for a Global Environmental Crisis William Flores 8. Rediscovering Ice: García Márquez, Aira, and Vallejo on Childhood Memories Héctor HoyosPart Three. Later Works 9. After the End: Bolívar in the Labyrinth of History Michael Wood 10. The Magic of Love, the Horrors of Death, and Other Themes in the Short Stories of García Márquez  by Rubén Pelayo 11. Gastronomical Pilgrims Fernando Valerio-Holguín 12. Reading Illness in Gabriel García Márquez’s Of Love and Other Demons Olivia Vázquez-Medina 13. Magical Realism as a Simple Tool to Elicit Humor in Of Love and Other Demons  Ignacio López-CalvoPart Four. Other Genres, Other Media 14. The Permutations of the Fictional, Non-Fictional, and Autobiographical ‘I’ in the works of Gabriel García Márquez  Robert L. Sims 15. Doomed from the Start: Big-Screen Adaptations of Two García Márquez Novels  Rudyard Alcocer and Haley Osborn 16. Remembering Broadway’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold Zhanna Gurvich","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040707019095,"sku":"9781498533386","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498533386.jpg?v=1750947585","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gabriel-garcia-marquez-in-retrospect-9781498533386","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}