Gabriel Garcia Marquez : New Readings (Paperback)

Introduction Bernard McGuirk; 1. Characterisation in the early fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Richard Cardwell; 2. Beware of gift-bearing tales: reading 'Baltazar's Prodigious Afternoon' according to Marcel Mauss Eduardo Gonzalez; 3. The body as political instrument: communication in No One Writes to the Colonel Rene Prieto; 4. Magical realism and the theme of incest in One Hundred Years of Solitude Edwin Williamson; 5. Translation and geneaology: One Hundred Years of Solitude Anibal Gonzalez; 6. The humour of One Hundred Years Solitude Clive Griffin; 7. On 'magical' and social realism in Garcia Marquez Gerald Martin; 8. Aspects of narrative structure in The Incredible and Sad Story of the Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother Mark Millington; 9. Language and power in The Autumn of the Patriarch Jo Labanyi; 10. Writing and ritual in Chronicle of a Death Foretold Bernard McGuirk; 12. A prospective post-script: apropos of Love in the Times of Cholera Robin Fiddian; The solitude of Latin America: Nobel address, 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Richard Cardwell; Select bibliography John Wainwright; Index Richard Cardwell.