Gabriel García Márquez

"Big Mama's Funeral" is a long short story by Gabriel García Márquez that satirizes Latin American life and culture. It displays the exaggeration associated with magic realism. Most of the place names mentioned come from Colombia, and "Big Mama" herself is an exaggeration of the 'cacique', a familiar figure in Latin …

Kuulutetun kuoleman kronikka on Gabriel García Márquezin tosipohjainen kaunokirjallinen teos vuodelta 1981. Se on ilmestynyt Matti Brotheruksen suomennoksena 1982. Márguez on käyttänyt kertomuksessa aineistona Miguel Reys Palencian elämää kirjan keskeisen henkilön Bayard San Románin kuvaamisessa. Palencia nosti …

No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write One Hundred Years of Solitude so the people would read No …

At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his youth. Consumed by the …