Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude A Casebook

by Bell-Villada, Gene H.

• ISBN13: 9780195144550
• ISBN10: 0195144554
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interviewwith the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This Casebook features ten critical articles on Garcia Marquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past threedecades, they include pieces by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles ofexploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, and its simple truth-telling, its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches--historical, feminist,postcolonial; the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with Garcia Marquez.

Author Biography

Gene H. Bell-Villada is Professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. He is the author of five other books and numerous articles, reviews, and satires.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(14)
Gene H. Bell-Villada
A Conversation with Gabriel Garcia Marquez	17	(8)
Gene H. Bell-Villada
Garcia Marquez: On Second Reading	25	(8)
Carlos Fuentes
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Cien anos de soledad	33	(20)
James Higgins
The Humor of One Hundred Years of Solitude	53	(14)
Clive Griffin
The Sacred Harlots of One Hundred Years of Solitude	67	(12)
Lorraine Elena Roses
Aureliano's Smile	79	(12)
Michael Wood
The Limits of the Liberal Imagination: One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nostromo	91	(36)
Jean Franco
One Hundred Years of Solitude as Chronicle of the Indies	109	(18)
Iris M. Zavala
Banana Strike and Military Massacre: One Hundred Years of Solitude and What Happened in 1928	127	(12)
Gene H. Bell-Villada
The Dark Side of Magical Realism: Science, Oppression, and Apocalypse in One Hundred Years of Solitude	139	(14)
Brian Conniff
Steams Out of Control: The Latin American Plot	153	(20)
Carlos Rincon
Selected Bibliography	173